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Woman's Work Woman.
A UNION ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
MISSION HOUSE, 53 FIFTH AVENUE,
NEW YORK.
INDEX TO VOLUME IX.
1894.
Acknowledgments 136, 248
Announcement 106
Africa :
Visit to the Dwarfs 9
Testifying to the Grace of God, III .... 69
Housekeeping in the Bush 145
Some Gaboon Women 146
In the Gaboon District 147
The Gospel Oftered to the Bule 148
The Gaboon Mission Fleet 150
What All Boys Want to Hear about Africa . 151
Africa — Verse 152
Glimpses of the West Coast 153
Conversion of the First Fan 154
Scraps Which Show the Trend 155
Progress at the New Bule Station .... 298
Editorial Notes 3, 29,
85. "3. 143. 144, 171. 172, 199. 256, 285.
286, 313
Letters from . . 20, 47, 72, 275, 302, 328, 329
Annual Meetings 158
Are A Man AND His Wife One? .... 59
Asia Minor, Bits of Travel in 129
Auxiliaries, To the 25, 52,
78, 107, 136, 191, 221, 250, 282, 308, 335
Auxiliaries and Bands, New . . 27, 55,
82, III, 138, 167, 193, 225, 252, 284, 311, 338
Books Received 24, 51,
78, 136, 191, 220, 250, 334
Bose, M. a., Chandra Mukiii — Verse . . . 104
Boxes ? Do You Send Missionary .... 280
Bridal Girrs 304
China:
Chinese and Foreigners Vis-a-vis .... 31
Off with the Doctor to One Patient .... 33
A Bit of Realism from Nanking 34
A Shantung Bible Woman 35
Imperative Need of Central China .... 36
Life in Shantung. II. Sociology • • ■ ■ 37
On the Way to the Truth 39
Chinese Woman Physician 40
Volunteer Evangelist 40
A Spring Outing in Shantung 40
Miss Ch'ang among Thieves 42
In Woman's Ward, Canton Hospital ... 68
Description of Ho.spital Cut 99
A Missionary Journey in Hainan . . . .174
Review of Hainan Mission History. . . . 177
No Children's Graves in China — Verse . .183
God's Reserve Forces in a Chinese City . . 240
Editorial Notes . 29, 58, 86, 114, 172, 286, 314
Letters from 20, 44,
73, 131- 157- 184, 215, 244, 274, 301
Chinese in America :
Our Little Chinese Brownies 173
I. A Christian Chinese Home. II. China-
town at Christmas Festival 179
Christmas Missionary Service, A 50
Editorial Note 172
Christian Endeavor Around the World . 180
" Come, Holy Spirit" — Verse 23
Cross-Questioning of Miss'y Com 76
Dedication of San Francisco Mission House 15
Editorial Notes (in part) :
Bible 30, 144
Bishop, Mrs. Isabella i, 106
Converts 30, 86, 114, 144, 171
Cost on the Field 58, 228
Deaths . . I, 2, 57, 58, 85, II3, 227, 255, 313
Earthquake 199, 227, 228, 256
"Farewells" 200, 227, 285, 286
Finances 57, 113, 143, 227
Medical . . I, 2, 30, 228
Mosul Case ' . . . . 85, 227
New Centres 2, 58, 86
Opposition 2, 58, 199, 227, 228
Persia, Shah of 144
Plague .... 172, 199, 200, 227, 228, 256
Publications, Maps, etc 3, 29,
30, 57, 144, 200, 256, 286
Schools 58, 86, 144
Siam, King of 3> 85
Thibet 3, 228
Various Societies 57, 171, 172
War 58, 199, 227, 255, 285, 313
Half-Hour's Lesson Prolonged, A . . . 187
His Little Comforter — Verse 51
Illustrations :
Africa, Efulen House, 146 ; Map, 148 ; Fell-
ing a Forest Giant, 149 ; Surf-boat, 150 ;
Ogowe Town, 153 ; A Fan Band, 154 ;
Brazil, Parana Pines, 290 ; Bahia, 295 ; San
Paulo Market, 296 ; Chili, Family Starting on
a Ride, 293 ; China, A Shenza, 33 ; Horse-
shoe Graves, 34 ; Gate of Nanking, 35 ; Grind-
ing Flour, 37 ; Arches, Tungchow, 38 ;
A Kwan, 40 ; Map, 41 ; Woman's Ward,
Canton, 68 ; Map, 175 ; Loi Earrings, 176;
Temple Lamp, 176 ; Colombia, Bogota Picnic
Party, 288 ; India, A Bunya in His Shop, 89 ;
Women Grinding, Elephants, Marble Tomb,
92 ; Village Street, 96 ; Village Bazar, 97 ;
Japan, Fuji San, 231 ; Temple Steps, Gongen,
232 ; First Protestant, 236 ; Arima, 239 ;
Buddha, 241 ; Results of Earthquake, Tokyo,
271 ; Korea, Members of Korea Mission,
202 ; Old Kim, 203 ; Map, 204 ; Gate of
Seoul, 207 ; Laos, Lakawn Princess, II ; Map,
117; Buildings at Lakawn, 120 ; Mission-
aries, 122 ; Lao Princesses, 126 ; Lakawn
Camp, 179 ; Mexico, Fountain at Mexico
City, 61 ; Map, 63 ; Persia, Tabriz, 4 ; Tents
of Eliauts, 6 ; Arch, 14 ; Kurdistan Village,
70 ; Teheran Hospital, 260 ; Entrance to
Miana and Houses, 265 ; Oroomiah Patients,
267 ; Schoolhouse, Salmas, 268 ; Siam,
Sacred Tree, 119; Syria, Mrs. Bistany,
182 ; Frontispiece, Bethlehem Brides ; Historic
INDEX TO VOLUME IX.— Continued.
Scene, 318 ; Minyara Chapel, 321 ; Map, 322 ;
Beirut Seminary, 325 ; Ibl Chapel, 323 ; Pot-
tery, 324 ; United States, Chinese Brownies,
173 ; San Francisco " Home," 180.
India :
Bride and Widow — Two Zenanas .... 8
Extracts from Dr. Jessica Carleton's Notebook 11
Influence of Heredity Illustrated by Trader
Caste 87
Villages of Kolhapur District 90
A Trio of Characteristic Features . . 91
Y. W. C. A 93
Doctor's Visit to the Maharani 94
Use of an Unfinished Quilt 95
Everyday Life in the Village 96
Visit to a Maratha Village 97
The Festive Side at Ambala 98
Opening of New Hospital at Miraj . 271
High Caste Converts 298
Editorial Notes 86, 144, 172, 286
Letters from, 18, 46, 100, 156, 186, 216, 242, 300
In Remembrance — Verse 218
Interest and Obedience 75
Japan :
Testifying to the Grace of God, 11 . 12
Japanese Woman Physician in Court 71
A Noble Lady of Japan 229
Rescuing Children at Kanazawa .... 230
Earthquake in Tokyo 230, 271
Hakone 231
Beginnings of Our Mission 233
Incidents from Toyama 234
First Protestant Believer 236
Japan Beautiful ; Needy 238
Editorial Notes 58, 228
Letters from . 73, loi, 132, 185, 242, 303, 330
Kans.\s Band, A 247
Korea :
Presbyterian Mission 201
Key to Picture of Missionaries 203
Preaching to Women in the North .... 203
Hosanna 205
New Arm of Medical Work, Seoul .... 206
Yong Kyou of Fusan 208
Hiding the Leaven 209
News from Pyeng Yang 2lo
' ' The Don " 211
Message from Korea — Verse 272
Editorial Notes . . . . 3, 114, 199, 285, 313
Letters from 45, 214, 328
Living Water 248
Lovest Thou Me? — Verse 306
Maps, About 332
Mexico and Guatemala :
A Visitor in Mexico ........ 60
A Lively New Station 62
Evangelistic Work, Mexico City .... 64
Commencement, Mexico City 66
A Continued Work 67
Editorial Notes 29, 58
Letters from 18, 72, 217, 277
Missionary Congress, California, Woman's 167
Missionary Mathematics 278
Missionary Meeting at Saratoga . . 190, 246
Missionary Meeting in January .... 331
Persia :
Two Weeks in Kara Dagh 4
Visit to Kermanshah 1 3
Lame Joseph 70
Tour among Armenian Villages 257
Disgraceful Thing in Mohammedanism . 259
Teheran Hospital 260
Flash Lights on First Year Out
Sketches in Kurdistan
Uncultivated Fields in Persia
In Oroomiah Hospital
Girls' School, Salmas
Blood Feuds Still in Vogue
I. Tenting. II. Woman's Work, Oroomiah .
Elementary Schools
Editorial Notes . 2, 30, 86, 199, 227,
Letters from 19, 157, 186, 214,
Phrase to be Abandoned, A
Praise Meeting, Her First
Prayer, An Instance
Presbyterian Miss. House, Chaut.wqua
Programmes for Monthly Meetinc; 21, 48,
75. 103. 134. 158, 187, 218, 246, 278, 304,
Providential Rescue of an MS
Receipts, Statement of
SlAM and L.AOS :
A Lakawn Princess
Memorable Tour in Laos
The Sacred Tree of Siam
Under the Southern Stars — Verse ....
Items of Progress
Incident from Lakawn
Outing at Petchaburee
Representative Lao Women
Observation by Mr. Holt Hallett ....
Post-haste from Pra
A Day"s Itineration, North Laos ....
Trip to City of Nan, Laos
Editorial Notes . 3, 30, 85, 1 14, 144, 200,
Letters from . . 46, 74, 102, 131, 216, 245,
Since Last Month 24, 52,
78, 107, 168, 191, 221, 250, 281, 307,
South America. Brazil:
A Brave Brazilian Woman
Tour in North Brazil
Curityba Under Blockade
A Trip in Parana Forest
Notes of Tour in SergipS
In Bahia City
Brazilian Notes . ,
Little Italy in San Paulo ,
Letters from 47, 102,
Chili :
Testifying to the Grace of God, V
Story of Maria
Colombia :
Contrasts in Colombia .....
Letters from 133,
Star and the Son(; — Verse ....
Stumbling Blocks in the Auxiliary .
Suggestion Corner, 23, 51, io6, 220, 249,
SUGGE.STIONS for WRITING PAPERS . .
Sunday-school, Missionary Training in
Syria :
Three Instances
Mosque at Damascus Burned .
Testifying to the Grace of God, IV
A Child Bride in Beirut .
A Memorial Pillar in Beirut .
The Memorial Column in Beirut
One of the Brightest Spots in Syria Mission
Some Things Observed Among Women
Near Mount Hermon and to the Top .
Beirut Seminary for Girls
Editorial Notes 86,
Letters from 133, 216, 273
Treasurers, Simple Talk to Young
Treasurers' Reports 27, 55
82, III, 138, 168, 194, 225, 252, 285, 311
307
17
260
263
264
266
267
268
269
270
256
303
23
48
248
103
331
182
333
II
"S
118
120
121
123
124
125
127
130
178
212
256
276
334
15
127
289
289
293
294
295
297
300
291
292
287
300
332
104
333
134
21
17
17
181
315
317
317
320
321
323
325
286
327
219
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WOMAN'S WORK FOR WOMAN.
Vol. IX.
MAY, 1894.
No. 5
All aboard for Annual Meetings.
Appropriations made by the Board of
Foreign M issions, May, 1893, were on the
basis of an income of $1,015,000. On
April I, 1894, receipts were only $575,-
484.80. The Woman's Boards were nearly
$20,000 behind their figures of the same
date last year. It would be a timely act if
some ladies whose incomes are above the
average and have not been painfully dimin-
ished (as many have,) would send an offer-
ing to the Treasury in addition to what
they have already given and above what
they ever gave before, to save the flag of our
Lord's advancing Kingdom from coming
to a halt or going down before the enemy.
Mr. Dulles' books close April 30.
The death of Rev. Wm. M. Thomson,
D.D., occurred at Denver, Colo., April 8.
He was forty years a missionary in our
Syria field and known to all the world as
the author of The Latid and the Book.
"The Lord has come again into his gar-
den and plucked another of his blossoms.
Our little Ruth has joined her sister. She
was ill only five days. We longed to keep
her, both for our own sakes and for her
grandparents. We are resting on the prom-
ises of God and his personal presence.
" Since writing the above, I have received
word of the death of my father. Heaven
begins to seem nearer than America and just
as real."
These lines from our brother McDowell
in Mosul, would touch harder hearts than
any of our readers have. The damp Mosul
hou.ses which the station are still compelled
to occupy, and the summer of hardship in
Amadia, culminating in the death of Mr.
McDowell's eldest child, are well remem-
bered. They have been without an Ameri-
can physician since the spring of 1892.
Ruth was about four years of age. She
died February 15, leaving a baby sister.
Whatever is forgotten, the Church must
not forget that it has been intended from
the beginning to open a second station in
the Bule country. West Africa, during
1894. Through the self-denying gift of
one member of the Gaboon Mission, a part
of the necessary funds are insured. Chris-
tians at home are called upon to do the
rest : to furnish about $3,500, and to pray
forth and send forth three of the most
sensible and godly men in our country,
viz.: two laymen, one of them a physician,
and an ordained man.
February 17th, Mrs. Good and Mrs.
Reutlinger were in sight of Grand Canary.
It is with deep regret we learn that Dr.
Hugh Brown's health requires his return to
America. Dr. Irvin has taken his place in
Fusan, Korea.
The Annual Union Meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies, in
connection with General Assembly, will be
held in the Second Presbyterian Church,
Saratoga, Monday, May 20, at 2 P.M.
The .same rates of reduction, on the
Grand Trunk lines, that have been given
to General Assembly delegates have been
extended to all ladies in attendance. For
further notice in regard to railroads, see
the weekly newspapers. Those who desire
information in regard to boarding places,
may apply to Miss Isbelle Terrett, Temple
Grove, Saratoga, N. Y.
Lady missionaries who are expecting to
be in Saratoga, are requested to send their
names to Miss E. A. Darling, Auburn,
N. Y., at the earliest moment.
Send to the Treasurer's office, 53 Fifth
Ave., New York, inclosing a two-cent
stamp, for An Epistle to the Churches Con-
cerning the World' s Evangelization. Just
out and fine.
One of our missionaries in Mexico says
she receives " any number of letters from
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
[May,
Societies and Bands asking for some
account of the school," but seldom has
" time " to gratify the writers. We should
think not. Her service is pledged to
Mexico. We recommend to those Societies
and Bands to employ some of their own
time in looking up the information already
within reach, and, when that fails, to write
to one of the Home Secretaries of their
Woman's Board, and when that fails, — to
pray double for Mexico, to feed on the
promises of God and wait patiently for the
next magazine.
Rarely, very rarely, we receive an
anonymous letter. It always contains some
suggestion or query which we could satis-
factorily explain to an individual but can-
not afford space for in our magazine.
Besides assisting in school. Miss Doty
has been able, during four months, to meet
between three and four hundred Korean
women, few of whom could read, " most of
whom heard for the first time of the true
God and the name of Jesus." Many times
these women put the question to her :
"What must I do to believe?" She ad-
vocates keeping the force of single ladies
large enough to permit their combining
school teaching with work among the
women. "We accomplish more," she says,
"with less wear. We need the rest and
education of the outside work to fit us for
the best service in school."
Let Miss Doty's recipe be pa.ssed on to
missions outside of Korea. We believe
that many a worn teacher would come back
to her schoolroom, after a taste of country
work, elastic and refreshed and spiritually
wiser. There are teachers in Syria and
Persia and Japan who have had large ex-
perience of these advantages.
" It is very strange and dreadful," writes
Miss Boughton, " the way women are
whipped in China. Some were actually
afraid of me when I first went among them.
One day, in a warm room, I took off my
outside garment, whereupon the woman
whom I was trying to teach seemed con-
fused and not able to understand me, so I
sent her out to rest. She told some one
that I took off my cloak and .she thought I
was going to beat her for not knowing her
lesson. Before I came home, she took my
hand one day and said : ' I used to be
afraid of you but now I know better.' "
For a month last winter, Miss Bough-
ton, assisted by a bright Chinese girl of
twenty, was the center of one of those
country classes, the Shantung Chautauqua,
at a point forty miles from Wei Hien.
There were seventeen women in her class,
from nineteen to sixty years of age, " some
bright, some stupid," and only one could
read. At a cost, daily, of three-and-one-
half cents apiece, they were given their
food, which they prepared in turn, rising
at four o'clock and cooking at once all the
meals for the day, to avoid interruption in
study. " It is wonderful," says their
teacher, " what a difference Christianity
makes to them ; their lives are so hard and
hopeless without it. Sometimes it seems to
me that it means more to them than to us. "
A YEAR ago the first Christian grave was
made on the Siam Peninsular. Dr. Dun-
lap and Mr. Eakin were touring in Na-
kawn Province, 450 miles (southwest) from
Bangkok, and among those who most joy-
fully welcomed them was a native of that
province who, years before, had been con-
verted in Petchaburee Hospital, trained in
the mission as an evangelist, and had won
souls to Christ in labors on that coast.
One night a vagabond fatally wounded
that man with a knife, and during ten days
of suffering he often said: "When I re-
cover, I wish to guide you to (such and
such) villages that you may preach the
Gospel." His body would have been cre-
mated with heathen ceremonies by his
relatives, had our brethren not been there.
With hearts overshadowed for their loss,
they laid it away and preached Jesus and
the Resurrection to a throng of heathen
witnesses.
A CONVERTED Moslem in the Hamadan
field, Persia, told the Mis.ses Montgomery
that he learned to love the Saviour through
a Bible, bought from a colporteur, and that
he has half a dozen companions who also
are followers of Christ, though, in a coun-
try where confession means martyrs, they
fear to confess his Name.
Mr. Ullman recently baptized eight
lepers at the government asylum in Dehra,
India. Of the 108 patients there, 28 are
Christians.
Our missionaries hold a Sunday service in
the Leper Asylum at Ratnagiri, So. India,
where are over sixty men and twenty women.
1894]
OUR MISSIONARIES IN SIAM AND LAOS,
AND POST OFFICE ADDRESSES.
Letters for Chieng Mai and Lampoon should
Rahe
Miss Elsie Bates,
Miss Edna S. Cole,
Miss Larissa J. Cooper,
Mrs. A. W. Cooper,
Mrs. E. P. Dunlap,
Mrs. J- B. Dunlap,
Mrs. J. A. Eakin,
Bangkok, Siam.
be sent via Burma and Raheng ; for Lakawn and Pra, via
ng and Myawaddi.
Mrs. D. G. Collins, Chieng Mai, Laos.
Miss Isabelle A. Griffin, " "
Miss Cornelia H. McGitvary, **
Mrs. E. B. McGilvary^^
Miss Margaret A. McGilvary, " "
Mrs. J. W. McKean,
Mrs. Stanley K. Phraner
Miss Kate Fleeson,
Miss Julia A. Hatch,
Mrs. S. C. Peoples,
Mrs. Hugh Taylor,
Mrs. J. S. Thomas,
Miss Margaret Wilson,
Mrs. W. S. Briggs,
Mrs W, F. Shields,
In This Country: Mrs. Dodd, Franklin, Pa.; Mrs. Daniel McGilvary, Statesville, N. C
Mrs. F. L. Snyder, "
Mrs. Chas. E. Eckels, Petchaburee,
Miss Annabel Gait, "
Miss Emma Hitchcock, *'
Mrs. W. G. McClure,
Miss Annie M. Ricketts, "
Mrs. Walter B. Toy, "
Mrs. E. Wachter, Ratburee,
Lakawn,
Pra,
Mrs, Thompson, Beverly, N. J.
A MEMORABLE TOUR IN LAOS.— Extracts from Report.
[Called by the veteran Dr. McGilvary, " For our mission the /our of /ours." — Editor.]
^ Dr. McGilvary and I left Chieng Mai,
on Tue.sday, January 3, 1893, for the long
tour to the North. Our party consisted
of ourselves, three elders, four carriers, a
cook and a table-boy, four elephants and a
pony. We were provided with five months'
provisions. Tuesday evening we camped
at Ban Luang. Wednesday we passed near
Maa Dawk Dang. I had a new experience in
riding the elephant's head. It was old
S'daw, Dr. McGilvary's own elephant, a
wise rascal who took advantage of the fact
that my feet were unaccustomed to do the
titillation act and so were soon tired, to
take his own gait and browse along the way.
The Doctor who is a good elephant driver
seemed to enjoy the novelty as much as
S'daw. The road here is in the mountains
for three days and is simply a succession of
climbing boulders, scaling slippery mount-
ain sides, or wading streams. It took us
nearly a day to cross a mountain supjjosed
to be presided over by a female deity who
is kept appeased by the most revolting and
degraded offerings. These filthy offerings
were planted thickly along the way. Just
after we crossed this mountain, we met a
Haw caravan with horses for sale in Chieng
Mai and Maulmein. We bought a rupee's
worth of walnuts from them. Shortly after
we encountered a fly whose bite caused a
breaking out in a few minutes. On Friday
we reached Ban Pung Kri. We have one
Christian here, an old man afflicted with
rheumatism, but happy amid his sufferings.
At Pa Bong we had a cordial welcome, spent
Sabbath and baptized four adults. Mon-
day evening we had a delightful gathering
for worship ; all five elders and some of the
church members voluntarily led in prayer.
From the first, this church has been .sub-
jected to petty persecution by the author-
ities. They bear it bravely.
We reached Maakawn Saturday. There
are eleven Christian families and a small
chapel here, but the work is not in a very
prosperous condition owing to the in-
different lives of some Christians. Che-
pakaw's village of Moosurs worship at this
church, though they have a chapel at their
own mountain home. We visited them on
Tuesday, wading up a rocky stream, bare-
footed and with pants rolled up in the old-
fashioned way, for three quarters of an
hour. What fun we had, and what a
stiff mountain climb afterwards ! The
memory of it almost makes my legs ache.
They gave us a right royal reception.
There is no more hopeful work than among
this warm-hearted, simple tribe.
We spent the next Sabbath at Chieng
Hai where we have only one Christian
family but which is the important centre of
this region. At Maa Kee we spent a night
with the one Christian family there. They
are practically ostracized on account of
their Christianity, and seem very lonely.
On Friday, 27th, we reached Chieng Saan
and bathed in the cold, swift Cambodia.
What a magnificent river, almost three
quarters of a mile wide here. We were
rowed up its broad bosom to the two
villages that contain most of the Christians
of the Chieng Saan Church, to spend the
Sabbath. Three children and two adults
received baptism. A day's climb brought
us into the first Moosur village. We found
only the family of Chuwn, the others hav-
ii6 A MEMORABLE TOUR IN LAOS.
ing gone to celebrate the new year, at an-
other village.
We spent the next Sabbath at Muang Ko
and had a large number of listeners and a
few earnest inquirers. A great many came
for medicines. Many Shans came to beg
books. We had only one copy of a cate-
chism and we gave them that. Monday
Feb. 13th, we had a long day's travel
through fine, shady woods and reached
Muang Lane at dark. This city is com-
posed of three divisions, inhabited respect-
ively by Ngeeo, Kurn and Lew peoples.
It is rather noted for its turbulent and law-
less element. It is British territory and
the independence of the people is in marked
contrast to the cringing subjection of the
southern countries. We stayed a week
here, received visits from all clas.ses, told
the story many times, and made excursions
into the mountains to the Kaw villages.
The Kaws listen well and take pleasure in
interpreting to those of their number who
do not understand the Lao language, but
do not seem much disposed to give up their
paw maa (father mother) by which they
mean the religion of their fathers. Like
the Moosurs and Kooies, they worship an
unseen and supreme Being whom they do
not attempt to represent, but, unlike those
tribes, they also worship demons under the
most grotesque forms. Opium and whiskey
have degraded them but they are a kind-
hearted and sociable people.
From Ban Palao to Muang Yong we
had three hard days, climbing the highest
mountains we crossed in the whole journey.
The Cambodia seemed a tiny stream lying
at their base, but in reality it was two days
away. Their forests have a home-like ap-
pearance about them, though the trees are
much taller than our home trees. The
third day's travel was excessively hot and
we arrived at Ban Maa Yong early in the
afternoon thoroughly tired, to find no
shade not even a tree, only a low, thatched-
rooi sa/a m which we lay and ])anted the
day away. The people of the village came
to gaze on us and became much interested
in the story of Jesus, then came again and
stayed until it was time for us to retire. We
have a pleasant remembrance of this village.
On Friday we reached the "little city"
Weung Mai. The people pressed us hard
to stay, and we decided to remain till
Monday. We had a crowd from morning
till night. A young Ngeeo became much
interested and wanted to study, but said
[May,
that he would have to return to Chieng
Toong with his caravan and settle up his
busine.ss first. We also met Lew people
from the far north of the Sip Song Punna
who listened with astonishment. They
never had heard anything like it.
A young man came to me late at night
in great distress begging to be delivered
from the pee (demons). I told him I
could not do it but I knew One who could.
I do not know whether he sought His aid
or not. I was inclined to think at the time
that the man was fleeing from some crime
and the pee of remorse had seized him.
We reached Muang Luang at dusk on
Saturday March 4th, and remained till
the following Wednesday. This is one of
the largest muangs in the Sip Song Punna
and is also wealthy. They have large
houses, well built, broad streets with a
stone walk in the centre, two good stone
bridges and a fish pond. The government
is well administered. Theft, they say, is
almost unknown. Crowds thronged us all
the time. The four days from Muang
Luang to Chieng Hoong were full of
interest. The road lies at the base of the
mountains along a broad rice plain and is
a line of villages all the way. News of our
coming had preceded us and often a crowd
of people would be on the road waiting for
us, others would run out to meet us and
beg us to stay and teach them, and when
they saw that it was impossible they would
beg a book. How keenly we felt that our
number of books was severely limited.
Many followed us all day to our camping
place in order to hear more of the Gospel.
This was our general experience. On the
other hand we saw much drinking, gam-
bling and opium smoking.
A word, regarding the country called the
Sip Song Punna. There are eleven muangs,
or districts, on the west of the Cambodia
and thirteen on the east. It may extend
quite to the borders of China, more than
a month's journey from Chieng Hoong.
It is almost independent paying only a
nominal tribute, to the Haw (Chinese)
country and to the Burmese. Each muang
has its own ruler, makes its own laws and
conducts its own internal affairs, but owes
allegiance to the central power in Chieng
Hoong. They all seem thoroughly loyal
to the King. The peo])le are Lews. With
the exception of the mountain tribes there
are remarkably few other people living
among them. The language is practically
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117
the same as the Lao, having only dialectic,
verbal and tonal differences. It seems im-
possible that the country can long remain
in its present political situation. With the
Chinese pressing in on the north, British on
the west and Siamese on the south, there is
neither strength nor unity enough to hold
the country intact. To whatever power it
may fall, it is imperative upon our Presby-
terian Church to occupy it for Christ.
We reached Chieng Ha just in time to
escape a heavy rain which lasted all night
E.P.Fisk, Euijr., M.Y
and nearly all next day. The people of
this city thronged to hear the Gospel and to
see the koola kows that could speak their
language. Their eagerness was almost
painful to see. Next day we crcssed the
Cambodia to Muang Hum. At this city
princes, priests and people begged us to
stay at least another day, but we had to
press on. The road eastward for more
than half a day lies in a rich and populous
country. The people were very friendly,
often coming out in crowds to talk with us.
ii8
THE SA CRED TREE OF SIAM.
[May,
Muang Noon is one of the largest muangs
in the Sip Song Punna. We spent three
intensely interesting days here. The Gov-
ernor invited us because it was our sacred
day, but we suggested that if he would in-
vite us to worship at the palace we would
be glad to go. The messenger returned
almost immediately with an invitation.
The Governor and his household, courtiers
and officials were ])resent, besides as many
of the people as could crowd into the large
room. They all listened attentively and
asked many questions. The Governor in-
vited us to come again next day to hold an-
other service, and we did. On Tuesday
he called on us at the ivat (temple) and
stayed for service. Many of the priests
begged books but we could only refuse for
our stock was running low. Pong is a
large muang laid out with regular streets.
The Governor is a brother of the Governor
of Noon and like him in cordiality. We
worshiped in his palace. People from the
country villages came in to assist in the
New Year's celebration and many of them
heard the story of the Cross for the first
time. Muang Mang has no city proper but
three large towns. Small-pox was raging
but the people came to us in immense crowds.
They wanted medicine of many kinds, but
listened with eager attention to the Gospel.
We felt a painful delight in witnessing
these hungry .souls fairly eating our words.
We stayed a week at Sing, held by the
sickness of one of our men. The city
people were not very eager to hear our
message, but the outside villages came in
often. On market day, which came on
Sunday, we met great crowds. Nyows and
Maaos, mountain tribes, proved our best
listeners. The Chow Fa, Governor, is a
keen, deep man. He asked ])ointed ques-
tions to get at vital truths and tried to uphold
Buddhism. He invited us to hold service
at the palace. He evidently was pleased.
There is a large village of Ti Luang a little
south of the city : very pleasant people.
We had no difficulty in understanding each
other. The third day out from Sing the
bird orchestra fairly enchanted us with their
songs all day. It was the first real singing
we had heard. This day we visited a Kaw
encampment in the forest. There were
only women at home but they were a
different type from any we had seen, thrifty
and tidy and hospitable. They did not
seem afraid. The secret was they did not
use opium, not one of them.
We spent Sabbath at Chieng Koke on the
edge of a fine forest overlooking the majestic
Maa Kong and the rushing Maa Mah. Sun-
day afternoon we had a terrific thunder
storm. In the evening several families visited
us and brought with them a little hare-
lipped Kaw child they had adopted. The
Kaws have a cruel custom of killing hare-
lipped children. The grandfather of the
child had succeeded in protecting it for
several years but, on account of some dis-
tre.ss, the neighbors demanded its death and
the grandfather gave it away to these Laos
people. It was a very bright child.
From Muang Sing I returned to Chieng
Mai reaching there May 6, and Dr. Mc-
Gilvary turned northeast into the Moosur
mountains where he spent another month.
In this tour, the longest ever taken, we
visited twenty-four provinces belonging to
three different countries, and preached the
Gospel to not less than sixteen different
tribes. There was, throughout, the earnest
desire to hear the Gospel. The whole field
to China, to Burmah, and at least half
way to the China Sea is wide open and in-
viting us to enter. We ought to do so at
once. While there are about twelve lan-
guages in the field, it must be remembered
that they are spoken by isolated mountain
tribes and practically there is only one
language, the one which we speak and
which some in every tribe understand.
Robert Irwin.
THE SACRED TREE OF SIAM.
The Siamese, in common with all Bud- of escape from suffering, was seated under
dhists, have a sacred tree. It is called the one of these trees determined to attain to
" Bpo" and is venerated becau.se of the the knowledge he sought. While there he
tradition that Gautama Buddha was shel- was assailed by Mara with his spirit hosts
tered by it at the time he attained to su- of evil, and suljjected to infinite torture by
preme knowledge. all the pas.sions of humanity and demons of
The story is that Buddha, worn out with hell in the endeavor to di.ssuade him from
long fasting, and seeking to know the way his purpose ; but he came off triumphant.
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THE SA CRED TREE OF SI AM.
119
When the conflict was over and he had at-
tained omniscience he expressed himseU" as
greatly indebted to the tree which had
sheltered him, and, having nothing else to
give, he stood with unclosed eyes before it
seven days to show his gratitude. Later on,
he said that all men religiously inclined
should visit that spot where he had attained
to supreme knowledge. The site was jealously
guarded by his followers and a great wall
built about it, while kings and emperors
made pilgrimages and costly offerings to the
holy tree. One of the renowned Buddhist
writers — about 1400 years ago — inserted
into their scriptures the following: "Bud-
dha, chief of men, attained to supreme
knowledge vanquishing the army of Mara by
the help of ' Bodhi ' (the ' Bpo ' tree). He
who reveres and shows kindness to the
Bodhi — he, as it were, worships Buddha
himself and thereby gets rid of all sorrow."
This story prepares us to understand the
great reverence of the Siame.se for this tree.
It abounds all through the country and is es-
pecially nurtured in the wat — or temple — en-
closures. Occasionally one will be found
beside a wat, which i.s claimed to have
been raised from a cutting brought from
the original tree under which Buddha sat at
Buddhagaya, India. It is a common sight
to see old, cast-off priestly garments wrapped
about the trunks and branches of these trees,
and offerings hanging from the limbs. The
more credulous of the people believe it im-
possible for any creature to be injured while
resting in the branches of the "Bpo,"
though this causes the fun-loving foreigner
to shoot birds off it before their eyes.
The tree is scientifically known as the
Ficus religiosa. It grows large, with
spreading branches and slender roots which
drop down from the outer limbs to catch in
the soil and develop in turn into good-
sized trunks. It is a hardy grower. A
seed dropped in a crack of the masonry of
a wall or building will shoot up at once and
send long rootlets down in search of food.
The young tree will grow for years on the
sustenance afforded ^thus, by a mere crack
in the wall, and, as it is held in such rever-
ence, it is seldom disturbed until in time it
completely disintegrates the structure.
Our illustration shows a pagoda on which
this process is going on. In an old temple
at Ratburee is a much larger tree grown
around a pagoda of this size, until the roots
form an almost continuous trunk about
the pagoda, leaving but a loophole here and
there through which bricks can be seen.
These are very suggestive objects. That
which is the pride of Buddhism is itself
literally tearing down Buddhism. The tree
nurtured and worshiped because it was a
help and blessing to Buddha, acts as a de-
stroyer of structures reared in Buddha's
honor. Looking deeper we see how the
suggestion applies to Siamese Buddhism to-
day. Merit making, or self help in attain-
ing release from misery, is one of the prin-
cipal dogmas of the Buddhist creed, yet it
is one of the most potent factors in crip-
pling and decaying the structure.
A man trusting in his own works of sup-
posed righteousness becomes conceited,
proud and selfish, and such are the Siamese.
Their belief that the attainment of sufficient
merit will release them from the woes of
existence leads them to seek to make merit.
When they feel that they have acquired
some merit it becomes their boast, and, as
pride and selfishness go hand in hand, it is
not difficult to see that Buddhism is, in its
practical workings, concentrated sclfisliness,
however it may be lauded to the skies, by
some. Indifference to all things human and
otherwi.se is enjoined by Buddhist precepts,
is the end sought in all their meditations
and is their final heaven. To love or care
for anything they are forbidden, as well as
to hate, and, because of the merit they will
I20
UNDER THE SOUTHERN STARS.
[May,
acquire by it, they are enjoined to be mer-
ciful to all creatures. Self-interest is thus
the basis of all their works.
Selfishness is not concerned as to how a
fellow-being lives, and thus Buddhism is
hindered from spreading over the world as
it might otherwise have done. As a system
of faith, it is admirably adapted to lull the
human heart to rest in belief that it need
not bow under the yoke of an all-powerful
God who will judge the world by that Man
whom He hath ordained. The wonder is
UNDER THE SOUTHERN
STARS.*
THE warm winds blow
Odor-laden, with sweets
Won from gardens of
orange and lime ;
Along the far horizon low.
Wave plumes of palm.
The^bamboo's feathery fronds
Sway and nod and curl
Upon their clashing canes,
With motion slow and musical.
Rank on rank, the succulent stems
Of plantains, hang banners green
To fan the heated air.
that Buddhism is received to-day by no
more of the human race. It is the shackles
of selfi-shness in which its votaries are bound
which prevents its wider dissemination.
Note the telegraph wires passing across
the front of the pagoda, in our cut. Is
not this a prophecy ? Does not this pict-
ure lift our thoughts beyond the mists,
through which we now labor, and give us a
glimpse of the final fulfilment of our Lord's
promises ?
Jas. B. Thompson.
[From a Photograph.
BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE ENXLOSURE
AT LAKAWN.
Nearest the southern stars,
A mighty pillar bears its crown
Of shade, the oil tree.
King of banyan, teak or Bo,
Marked with gash and fire scars.
And yields its precious balm meekly and free.
Trailing o'er the wayside hedge.
The slender cypress vine clasps crimson cups.
Close cling the spicy spheres of yellow spines
Along the thorny boughs of Arab's tree.
While, from its heart slow dropping.
The liquid amber beads fall noiselessly.
A sudden fragrance draws
Where showers of silver meteors
Lie tangled in the climbing jessamine.
On yonder hill, the snowy circles rise
Of Buddha's temple,
Its gilded pinnacle melodious
With a thou-sand chiming bells.
Each tiny tongue, swayed by a golden wing,
To fairy measure fluttering :
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Clear tolls the gong beneath the midnight sky,
The hurried cadence of a chant floats by,
They are praying i?t the dark
Under the southern stars.
The solemn stars look down upon the broken-
Hearted, like tear-brimmed angel eyes :
Oft flashing down in radiant flight,
Low down the southern skies,
Burns the constellation of His Cross.
A world hath pierced those feet,
A world hath nailed those hands,
A world hath bound that head.
His cross is here before man's wondering eye.
The Crucified, unknown ;
And burdened millions toil and groan and die,
While Christians keep the secret of His Rest
Under the Northern Crown.
{Mrs.)S. IV. Peoples.
* We are only eighteen degrees north of the equator so the night skies are brilliant with the stars of two
hemispheres, both Orion and the Southern Cross. — Letter from Mrs. Peoples, Lakawn, Laos.
Description of Cut. — Unfurnished sala, in the left foreground, which, in the absence of inns, Jis^ freely at
the disposal of pilgrims to the temple. Pagoda spire " in snowy circles " in the center. Covered stairway,
on the right, leading up to a brick wall surrounding the temple grounds. A second pagoda and bit of temple
roof in the distance.
ITEMS OF PROGRESS DURING THE PAST YEAR.
IN SIAM.
Threatened war was averted last summer
and the French were kept outside our mis-
sion boundaries. During the excitement
in Bangkok some students in the High
School left, but not a single recitation was
omitted. The building seats 100 and there
were 138 boys in attendance. Mr. Eakin
has been putting up an additional building.
The Harriet House School for girls has
acquired a new lot of ground.
A NEW chapel has been opened and a
NEW Preaching Hall in the heart of Bang-
kok. The latter is kept warm with Sunday
services, evening and special services and
Simday-school. " Many hundred chil-
dren " came there to Christmas entertain-
ment. Three new out-stations opened.
Additions in small but encouraging
numbers have been received to the Bangkok
and Petchaburee Churches. One of the
converts is an old teacher who has been a
strong Buddhist and resisted the mission-
aries' teaching for years.
Evangelistic work has been to the
FRONT. All the brethren and some of the
wives have shared in missionary tours, vary-
ing from one week to two months in length.
They have been made inland : in Ratburee
district, to Ayuthia the old capital, and to
Pak Nam Po, a great trading center half
way between Ayuthia and Raheng. They
have been made al.so in the sail boat " Kala-
mazoo " down the Gulf of Siam on the east
coast, and by government boats to Nakawn
Province in the southwest, and in Lower
Siam on both sides of the peninsula. The
last (reported) of these important journeys
was made by Rev. E. P. Dunlap, who
spent the two closing months of 1893
" roughing it " in Lower Siam. He says i
"We traveled 3,600 miles, labored in
seven provinces, preached in the temples,
market places, on the decks of steamers, in
prisons, at the fisheries and in the homes
of the people. Sold 2,867 portions of
Scripture in Chinese, Malay and Siamese,
but chiefly Siamese, and 1,185 Christian
tracts and books." In many instances the
hospitality shown the missionaries was un-
bounded. Dr. Dunlap took one tour of
a month down the coast at an expense of
only a little more than ^60.
The ENTIRE Bible in Siamese has been
printed for the first time. A small press
122
ITEMS OF PROGRESS DURING THE PAST YEAR.
[May,
for job work has
been added to
the printing fa-
cihties in Bang-
kok. From 400,-
000 to 600,000
pages are often
turned out in a
month. They are
portions of
Scripture, tracts,
the monthly
paper, Daybreak,
Sunday-s c h o o 1
helps and school
books.
Some months
ago reference was
made to the
death of an old
woman, a prod-
uct of the effort
at Ban Mai, who,
though she had
received but lim-
ited instruction, is
believed to have
died trusting in
the Saviour. The
beginning of her
attraction to the
Gospel, Mrs.
Eakin tells us,
was as follows :
" When first per-
suaded to attend
Sabbath - school,
she was selling sugar cane at a little stall
in front of the schoolhouse. She would
keep one eye on her place of business,
and, when she saw customers, would hasten
out and wait on them and then return
to listen. Later on, she got some one to
sell for her, so that she might stay through
the lesson. Finally she became convinced
that it was wrong to sell on the Sabbath
and gave it up altogether."
IN LAO.S.
The new station at Pra, five days east
from Lakawn, has been opened and the
second family has arrived. Chieng Hai is
to be opened this season.
The first publication in Lao character, a
tract by Mrs. Daniel McGilvary, " present-
ing the essential features of the Christian
religion in simple, homely Lao " was
printed at Chieng Mai two years ago, on
THE CHIENG MAI AND LAMPOON FRIENDS ABOUT TO START HOME FROM LAKAWN
AFTER I'RESBYTERY AND MISSION MEETINGS, l8q2.
Key. — I. Rev. J. Wilson. 6. Mrs. Hugh Taylor.
7. Rev. S. C. Peoples with
Ray in his arms.
8. Rev. R, Irwin holding
Ella Taylor in his arms.
9. Mrs. S. C. Peoples.
Misses Nellie and Allie McGilvary are in the howdahs. Rev. Hugh Taylor is taking the photograph.
Building on the right is boys' school, that in construction is Mr. Taylor's new house.
Rev. J. Wilson.
Dr. McKean.
Rev. D. McGilvary, D.D.
Rev. S. K. Phraner.
Rev. E. B. McGilvary.
10. Dr. W. A. Briggs.
(stooping).
11. Miss King (now
Mrs. Briggs).
12. Mrs. W. C. Dodd.
13. Rev. W. C. Dodd.
the same old Washington hand-press which
was shipped out there fifteen years before.
Last year, the first edition of the Gospel by
Matthew was printed and two thousand
copies were sold by November, the Book
of Acts was in the press, the Psalms were
ready to print, and the first half of John's
Gospel had been translated. A second
edition of the first tract, another tract, a
child's catechism and Lao Arithmetic and
Tables have all been brought out on the
same old press. They need a new press
at Chieng Mai.
The Church at Chieng Mai closed the
year 1893 with the largest number of ac-
cessions in its history, 134 on examination ;
total membership, 719. In November a
Church was organized at Chieng Dow with
49 adult members, all dismissed from
Chieng Mai. W\ the churches received
good additions.
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AN INCIDENT FROM LAKAWN.
123
Dr. McKean treated 5,000 pa-
tients at Chieng Mai, besides vac-
cinating 3,000 persons by command
of the Governor. Receipts paid all
expenses of medicines and instru-
ments. None leave the hospital
without having the Way of Life
distinctly pointed out.
By special invitation from the
head priest of one of the temples two
days southeast of Lakawn, the mis-
sionary spent six weeks in preaching
at that place. The old priest be-
came a convert and abandoned the
temple, but has since died.
On the 19th of January Dr. and
Mrs. Peoples, with their little boy
were starting by elephants for a two
months' tour, first north to Pen Yow,
then east to Muang Nan. From her
howdah on the elephant's back float
down Mrs. Peoples' parting words :
" There is a beautiful spirit of growth
in grace among the Christians. We
leave Lakawn just now with hearts
full' of love and gratitude for what
God has done for us."
" In carrying out plans we have labored together as members of a family, each being helped by some
other." — Laka'iun Station Report.
AN INCIDENT FROM LAKAWN.
I was the guest of Uncle Merit Come
and Aunt Good the first evening of the
Week of Prayer, 1894. They live ten miles
from Lakawn City, and I was there for the
purpose of encouraging the little Christian
community and conducting their devotions
during the week. Supper was over and I
sat in the outer room collecting my thoughts
for the services. In came Uncle Merit
Come and sat down on the floor opposite.
Soon Aunt Good followed, and tapping her
husband on the shoulder, said, " Tell Father
Teacher." Uncle Merit Come hesitated.
"Tell Father Teacher," was repeated. He
looked as though he would rather take a
whipping than say his little speech. "Go
on, tell him." He moved up a little clo.ser
to me and cleared his throat several times,
while I thought, " What is the trouble now?
If it isn't one thing it's another, and beg,
beg, all the time." I only said, " What is
it, Uncle Merit Come? " He drew a paper
from his pocket and spread it on the floor
before me and from another pocket he pro-
duced a little brown bag which gave forth a
sound much as though it contained money
as it came down on top of the paper. Said
Uncle Merit Come: "We want you to
take this." " Yes," chimed in Aunt Good,
" We have had to beg a great deal, but the
famine is over now and we have enough to
eat again. God has been good to us, and
we want to do like the city folks, so we
are taking up collections every Sabbath
now. ' '
This Lampangkang, is the place in
which Presbytery has provided for organ-
izing a new church this year. Our great-
est trouble in such cases is to find suit-
able men for elders. If Pah De, Aunt
Good, could be the elder we could go
ahead and organize at once. When told
about the Christmas offering for the Mitch-
ell Memorial Fund, .she handed in a whole
rupee with the remark, " It makes one glad
to give." (Ten rupees a month is good
wages for a man to earn. )
Hugh Taylor.
Lakawn, Laos, Jan. 29, 1894.
124
[May,
AN AFTERNOON OUTING AT PETCHABUREE.
Nature has made our location here
beautiful, with the river, now swollen by
heavy rains, just in front of our compound
and the mountains about half a mile off,
with the King's summer palace on the sum-
mit of one of them and beautiful temples
and rest houses on the way up their sides.
These are all miniature mountains, but from
the top of them we have a magnificent view
of the plains and of other mountains, more
deserving the name, far away to the north.
Yesterday afternoon was so delightfully
bright and breezy that we concluded to go
to Brickstep Mountain, which is about two
miles from the mission compound. Miss
Gait took her pupils along and I felt very
much at home with half a dozen of them
holding my hands and dress, just as the
little school-children did at home. AVe
went through a small market where we could
scarcely pass, as the streets are no wider
than alleys and were nearly filled with the
benches of the market people, and with
betel nuts spread out to dry. All the in-
habitants chew the betel nut. They take a
leaf, spread it with lime and yellow pow-
der, wrap this around the nut and chew it
with tobacco. It makes their teeth very
black and discolors their mouths, but they
never consider any one attractive whose
teeth are not black, and our servants, who
never chew betel around our homes,
always chew it if they go to market with
us, for fear it will be thought they are try-
ing to have white teeth.
There are many savage dogs in the mar-
ket but they allowed us to pass with little
notice, probably because we were sur-
rounded with native children ; and at this
time of the day they are too sleepy to be
very active. The shopkeepers were nearly
all lying down with their heads in the door-
way so that no thief would dare take any of
their goods on display in front. In fact,
everybody was napping, except the coolies
and slaves who are not masters of their own
time. Occasionally, some aroused enough
to see our little party and say Pi ni ?
(where are you going?) which is the polite
salutation, to which Miss Gait answered,
Bi koiv (to the mountains). After leaving
the market we i)ass a number of wats, or
temples, with yellow-robed priests sitting
around in the shade; but they are too
sleepy to speak to us. They are not al-
lowed by their rules to address a woman,
but as we are foreigners they frequently talk
to us.
Nearly every man in Siam is a priest at
some period in his life. If he has been a
very wicked man, he enters the priesthood
to make merit (which is the greatest am-
bition of every Buddhist) and to re-instate
himself in the regard of his friends and
relatives. If he wants to get rid of an un-
congenial wife, he enters the priesthood for
a year (the shortest period allowed), and
then is free to choose as many new wives as
he wishes. If he lives until he is old and
feels that he has not made enough merit,
he can go and spend the rest of his life in
the wat. These wats are always better than
the ordinary native houses. Many of them
are made of teakwood with tile roofs.
Often may be seen half a dozen buildings
in extensive grounds and, if we see a num-
ber of little boys running around and many
savage dogs, we may be sure it is a wat.
The priests are not allowed to touch
money, they are too sacred to come in con-
tact with the " filthy lucre," so they have
these little boys to carry their money and
food, which they beg from door to door.
The people make merit by giving their best
food to the priests.
After a long walk through a long lane or
road, between fields of rice, we come to a
sala (rest house) where we stop for awhile,
before climbing the mountain. The or-
dinary rest house has two wide benches,
large enough for a dozen people to lie down
upon, and a roof of grass. These places
are built to make merit and some of them
are constructed of brick, plastered and
whitewashed outside and inside, with mass-
ive pillars supporting a tile roof, and very
fancifully designed.
From the sala at the foot of the mountain
can be seen the brick steps leading upward
Avhich has given the name to Brickstep
Mountain. After so long a walk we do not
care to mount these steps, but go on a short
distance till we find a brick pavement lead-
ing up to the cave which we desire to visit.
All along the way up the mountain we find
many wats and salas. The entrance to the
cave is nearly at the top, and just beside the
entrance is a little prachadee. These pra-
i894-]
SOME REPRESENTATIVE LAO WOMEN.
chadees, or pagodas, are a sort of round
tower, built of brick or stone, terminating
in a pinnacle at the top. They are some-
times the receptacle of venerated relics of
Buddha and those who build them are sup-
posed to make much merit.
Going into the cave, we enter the side of
the mountain by a door, for there is really
a wooden door which opens to receive us.
There is a large cavern first, with many
openings leading into other chambers.
Here we light our torches and, as there
are about fifteen of us, the cave is well
lighted. All around the walls are idols,
from an inch to three feet high. Before
some of them are little shrines where some
one has been burning incense. The out-
side coating of gold is wearing off many of
the images, leaving them red in spots, and
the people make merit by pasting gold leaf
on these. They are all images of Buddha.
We explored every hole we could find. We
found eight large chambers and many dark
cells, just large enough for a board about
five feet long, with a large brick for a pillow
and a little idol with a shrine beside it.
These are beds where the priests sleep at
night in order to make merit. We found
about twenty of them. Sometimes we
would crawl through a long passage, then
climb down over rocks and through holes
just large enough to admit one at a time,
and find at the end a priest's bed. In one
large cavern is a reclining idol. I measured
it by walking from head to feet and it was
eighteen and a half steps long. We spent
about two hours in the cave and when we
came out we looked like miners ; our faces
were black with smoke from the torches.
We do not have twilight here, the sun goes
suddenly down and then it is night, so we
were obliged to hurry in order to reach
home before dark.
Annie M. Ricketts.
SOME REPRESENTATIVE LAO WOMEN.
Each heathen home among the Lao
people has a shelf in the family bed-room,
which shelf is the receptacle of anmlets and
charms, offerings of flowers and wax can-
dles, to the ancestral and other spirits of
the family. There is also a very small
house in the yard, built of the same ma-
terial and of about the same shape as the
ordinary dwelling houses. This bird-cage-
looking house and this shelf constitute the
demon shrines. Each family renouncing
the slavery of demons and accepting Chris-
tianity invites a Christian minister, if ob-
tainable, if not, some well-known Christian
worker, to come and tear down these de-
mon shrines, eject the demons and erect
the Christian altar of prayer.
Some time ago two of us missionaries and
several pupils of the Training School at Lam-
poon, went several miles in answer to such
a call. When we arrived, we found, like
Peter, " many that were come together,"
" kinsmen and near friends," '• all present
before God," to hear all things that were
commanded. Having accepted Christ, they
seemed ready to "do whatsoever he saith."
The following conversation, as nearly as
I can now recall it, occurred between one
of our Elders, Ai Sang, and the grand-
mother of the various households repre-
sented : " You know that you must keep
Sunday as a sacred day ? " " Yes. " " And
you must do absolutely no unnecessary
work." " I understand ; may we cook on
Sunday ? " " You must pound your pepper
and gather your vegetables and do every-
thing else on Saturday, except steam your
rice: that may be done on Sunday."
" May we go and gather firewood on Sun-
day with which to cook our rice ? " " No."
"But if it has been gathered previously,
may we chop it on Sunday?" "No."
"Then we will not."
Dear fellow Christians who know Christ's
commands, are we as childlike in our will-
ingness to do them? Are we willing to ac-
cept broader views of duty when brought to
us by the Spirit speaking in the Word,
and to shoulder new responsibilities when
pointed out to us by new facts, which "are
the finger of God ? " " If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them."
At certain seasons of the year the plains
in which most of the Lao people live are
flooded. One Sabbath morning since we
moved to Lampoon, when the country was
thus flooded, Mrs. Dodd was surprised to
find over twenty women in her Sabbath-
school class, as usual. Turning to a woman
over sixty years old, who lives about two
miles from the church, she asked her,
" Grandmother, was not the road very dif-
ficult this morning?" "Oh yes. Mother
Teacher, I beg your pardon, but the water
was up to our necks. We had to bring a
change of clothing, and hold it above our
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[May,
heads for about one-third of the way."
" And his disciples remembered that it was
written, 'The zeal of thine house hath
eaten me up.'" " If I forget thee, O Jeru-
salem, let mv right hand forget her cun-
LAO PRINCESSES OF L.^KAWN.
ning. If I do not remember thee, let my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if
I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.''
About three miles east of Lampoon lives
another woman over sixty years of age, who
furnishes us with constantly recurring ob-
ject-le.ssons in faith. She was converted
less than two years ago. Just after her
conversion occurred the death of an older
sister who had been a Christian for years.
The surviving sister took every word in the
fourteenth chapter of John about the " many
mansions ' ' just as literally and as realistically
as one would take a directory of Bangkok or
New York. She did not beat her breast
and wail out, after the manner of bereaved
heathen relatives, " Oh, where has my sister
gone ? What shall she have to eat ?
What shall she wear? I've nothing left
now for which to live or work. All is
dark, dark." But she said : "Oh I am so
glad that I learned, before sister died, of
salvation for myself and of .sister's good
fortune in being taken from earth to one of
Christ's mansions."
During the Week of Prayer, last year, our
Lampoon Christians agreed in asking that
the number of baptized persons,
adults and children, in the Lam-
poon Church might reach five
hundred before the close of the
year 1893 : and they united with
the other Lao churches in asking
the Lord to send the eighteen
men and women missionaries for
whom an appeal had been made
to the Church in America. The
last time I saw this woman of
whom I am now writing she
asked me if the five hundred had
all come yet. I replied, " No,
not all." She .said very quickly,
" Don't be small-hearted (anx-
ious) about it : they will come ;
they will come." 1 have not re-
ceived statistics to the close of
1893: but judging from the num-
ber of accessions before we left
last September, the number is
not far behind five hundred. In
the last letter from one of our
assistants he says that the Lam-
poon Church, this year, in the
Week of Prayer " .set their
hearts " to make the number one
thousand before December 1894.
The old lady asked me also
about the eighteen recruits and
the money to open the new
work. I told her we had heard certainly
at that time of only one appointment,
namely, that of Miss Wilson. She replied,
" Never mind ; they will all come. God
will send them. We have asked Him,
don't you know?" She was right. The
Lao people have received everything which
they have agreed upon to ask from the
Lord. Why? "What things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye re-
ceive them and ye shall have them." If
the Mitchell Memorial Fund should not all
be raised, or if less than eighteen recruits
should be sent, it would be the first time,
so far as I know, that the Lao people have
ever been denied a specific petition to their
King. Let us add our faith to that of the
Church in Laos and share in the blessings
of their answered prayer when the answer
comes. And let us give enough to answer
our own prayers. Let us not be behind
these newly-converted heathen, either in
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127
our faith, our devotion to "Jerusalem," or
our willingness to do " whatsoever He
saith." A glance at the map ought to con-
vince us as to what He saith. God is speak-
ing through the fact that the Presbyterian
Church has assumed undivided responsi-
bility to offer salvation to the Lao people.
He is speaking by the signal seal of bless-
ing which He has ever put upon service for
Him in that land : and He is speaking
through the example of these represent-
ative Lao women. W. C. Dodd.
AN OBSERVATION BY MR. HOLT HALLETT.
An English railway surveyor who spent
some time in Chieng Mai and has many
warm words of commendation and friend-
ship for the missionaries he met there and
for their work, says that in traveling eighty-
two miles south from Chieng Mai he
" passed and took the names of fifty-nine
villages." In his book — A Thousand Miles
on an Elephant, p. 437— he observes:
"As we proceeded southwards from Ra-
heng the daintily dressed Zimme (Chieng
Mai) women with their neat coiffure and
pleasant faces rapidly gave place to slov-
enly, brazen-faced Siamese females, often
made more repulsive by their recently
shaven heads being covered with short
bristles. All of these women whom we ad-
dressed on our way to Bangkok, asking the
names of villages or for other information,
answered us cheekily and never by any
chance digressed into the paths of truth.
The men were but little better ; and we
had frequently to inquire the name of a
village from half a dozen separate people
before I considered it safe to enter it in
my field-book."
A YOUNG LADY'S MISSIONARY TOUR IN NORTH BRAZIL.
Missionary work in the interior of
Bahia State* is much more encouraging
just now than in the City ; almost every-
where there is a growing interest. It was
a very pleasant and cheering trip I took
with my father in November. The first
part of the journey was up the beautiful
river Paraguassu about forty miles, in a
little steamboat, which on account of the
ebbing tide ran aground three miles short
of Cachoeira, its destination. We could
not afford to lose eight or nine hours wait-
ing for the tide, so we took a canoe the rest
of the way, and that evening father preached
to the little congregation of believers, to
whom have been added this year, among
others, a number of earnest young men.
These in turn take charge of the services
the weeks they have no one to preach for
them — -father tries to go up there the second
Sunday in every month.
Crossing early the next morning to San
Felix, which is connected with Cachoeira
by a well-built iron bridge, and which
though younger is a more enterprising little
city, we took train there. You would con-
sider the railroad a rather primitive affair
in spite of its grand name, Estrada de
* See map in Woman's Work November, 1891. Our space
does not permit reprinting this month. — Editor.
Ferro Central Imperial da Bahia. It took
us eight long hours to rattle over 130 miles.
The first part of the line runs through very
pretty country, but the latter part becomes
a little wearisome because of flatness, and,
in the dry season, the parched, gray look
of everything that ought to be green.
At Sitio Novo we left the train and,
from there on, our journeying was done on
horseback — about 200 miles in all. We
delayed over night at this place, however,
and there first used the baby organ we had
taken with us. The people in general are
very fond of music, and everywhere the
little organ was an attraction. I do not
think we left a place without leaving at
least one hymn in the memory of some
child. Father had a room full to listen to
him, but more listened from outside — tro-
pieros, mule drivers, who would not come
inside because they had heard through the
priests that the Padre Profestante always
laid an invisible cross on the threshold in
order that all who entered should commit
sacrilege by stepping on it. To have an
audience of these tropieros is scattering seed
broadcast, for they come from all parts and
go to all parts.
Sitio Novo is hardly more than a number
of mud huts grouped about a white, neat-
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[May,
looking station. All the other villages were
without exception built round a large quad-
rangle, in the center of which was a church,
and a good many streets branched out from
the quadrangle. This open square presents
an interesting scene on market day, which
is often Sunday, when the produce of the
country for miles around is brought in on
mule or horse-back, and the buying and
selling is done for the whole week.
At Rosario de Orobo we were very kindly
entertained, as indeed everywhere, at a
fazenda a little distance from the village.
The family consisted of husband and wife,
their bright little grandson, and the wife's
aged grandmother. None of them are pro-
fessing Christians yet, but they are deeply
interested and very intelligent. In the days
of slavery, they were well off, I fancy, but
now the wife, who is much younger than
lier husband, adds to their small means by
making cakes and sweetmeats for sale. We
had intended only to pa.ss the night there,
but were detained four days, in the course of
which we found out that the priest and his
parishioners had sent to the city of Bahia
for a new image of the Virgin which was
shortly to arrive. They wanted it to stop
at some house outside the village to which
the young girls could conveniently walk,
that they might march out to meet her, and
with great ceremony and festivities bear her
at their head to her niche in the wall of the
■church. The house we were at had been
chosen for the purpose, and because it was
the request of a friend, had been promised.
Father showed them how wrong it must
seem in God's sight to have those who love
Him in sincerity countenance a thing so hate-
ful to Him. The old man saw that, but
since he had given his promise, he compro-
mised by informing his friend that he should
absent himself from the house on the oc-
casion. The three evenings we were
there, father held services in the Municipal
Chamber, free use of which had been given
him. Our host and hostess went every
time, which meant a great deal where few
cared to show their interest enough to enter
and take seats, and it meant more on the
part of Donna Clelia, who had not been to
the village for months previous because she
finds climbing the hills very difficult, and
also because she was the only woman who
ventured nearer than to the window.
On the return trip, we found ourselves
again at the .same house. Snr. Capitas
Liberino was away, but Donna Clelia told
us that, judging from the decided interest
they had shown in the Gospel that their
sympathies were much more Protestant than
would be agreeable to the Virgin, the vil-
lage people made the excuse that their
house was a little too far away for their
festivities, and chose instead one still fur-
ther off but that promised a warm reception.
She added : " They little knew the favor
they did us." I learned, too, that Sunday
was her busiest and most lucrative day, but
before we left she told us she was not going
to work any more on Sunday. I believe
she is a true Christian at heart, and as she
learns what God's will is will try to do it.
I wish I could picture her, so cordial, lov-
ing and earnest.
On our way from Orobo Grande to Baixa
Grande we stopped at a small village, Santa
Luzia, to rest the horses and take a cup of
coffee. While waiting in a carpenter's little
shop for the water to boil, we sang a few
hymns for the children that gathered, and
that drew a large number of the older peo-
ple. Among them, one man in particular
had been reading the Bible and wanting for
a long time to hear a Protestant preacher.
He said if he had known one was coming
he would have had some sky-rockets with
which to welcome him. He was very
urgent that father should not go on till the
next day : " his house was ours, there were
many who wanted to hear the Gospel, and
there was a large room he could put at
father's disposal if he would preach." This
was very unlooked for, for, to our knowl-
edge, not even a colporteur had been there
before. Of course we stayed, though we
had hoped to reach Baixa Grande before
nightfall. The audience was large and at-
tentive and, until one o'clock in the morn-
ing, groups of men discussed the things
they had heard. We had to leave early
next day, but on our return \ve passed an-
other night there, again unexpectedly. We
arrived late in the evening but, even so, a
great many gathered after nine o'clock to
hear more of the AVord explained, and the
colporteur who had joined us sold many
Bibles and Testaments.
Laura A. Chamber laiu.
The Christian women of China propose to present the Empress-Dowager with a
"beautiful copy of the New Testament next autumn, on her sixtieth birthday.
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BITS OF TRAVEL IN ASIA MINOR.
EN ROUTE TOWARD MOSUL.
[The missionary party consisting of Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Ainslie (returning) and Miss Reinhart (to join
the Mission) reached Mosul in November last. The following extracts from letters have been postponed from
month to month on account of crowded pages. — Editor.]
We reached Alexandretta on the Medi-
terranean October 5th. It is only a small
village, unsafe for even one night's sojourn
on account of malaria, so we were anxious
to start for the mountains, about six hours
away, as soon as possible. Every horse and
mule in our caravan had a string of small
bells or two or three cow-bells attached to
some part of his harness. Mr. and Mrs.
Ainslie and myself were on horseback, the
children in box-like carriages hung with can-
vas curtains, one strapped on either side of a
mule ; then followed our train of ten loaded
animals. About twelve o'clock we reached
an old mission house, an abandoned build-
ing, put up our cot beds and slept. We
were ready to start again at sunrise, but
drivers and horses did not appear. The
men had taken the animals in front of the
Governor's harem and lain down to sleep,
instead of going to the inn, as ordered.
The Governor was so enraged at the insult
that he caused their arrest and fined them
about $8. So we did not get started until
about nine o'clock, and it was a very tired,
half-baked party that finally dismounted at
a little village, six hours later. We had the
upper story of the inn ; no doors and win-
dows were afforded, but on opposite sides
the whole room opened on covered porches.
A watch was kept all night and at sunrise
we resumed our journey eastward, our path
often leading up perilous "rock ladders"
where on one side a deep chasm yawned,
and on the other side of the narrow path
ro'e inaccessible cliffs. We went for miles
and miles along such paths. The mount-
ains were nearly bare of vegetation and
the glare of the snow white limestone caused
us to bring out our smoked glasses, and we
wrapped white cheese cloth around our
heads for protection from heat and flies.
On Saturday night we reached a little
brook near a village and pitched our tent
under a sycamore tree. Here we spent
Sunday, and all day long women from the
neighboring towns were here washing wheat
and clothes. The wheat is brought on
the backs of tiny donkeys and emptied from
bags into stone vessels with perforated bot-
toms. Water is then poured in and the
mixture kneaded with the hands until three
or four washings have rendered the wheat
passably clean, then it is spread on dirty
blankets on the ground to dry, the women
leveling it off with their feet. They came
to the tent door and examined everything
they .saw. They were in rags, dirty, and
nearly all had sore eyes.
Each village we passed looked worse than
the one before. The men work for from
$4 to $6 per month, and women sometimes
for two or three cents a day, and every one
pays taxes to the government. As soon as
a child is born the tax is demanded and, if
not paid, the father is imprisoned until the
money can be raised. Yesterday, six mem-
bers of the church here in Mardin were
imprisoned for failure to pay this tax. We
accomplished about 30 miles each day,
plodding on from sunrise until about four
P.M., without rest, and only a cold lunch
eaten from a tin box while on horseback.
We remained at Aintab a week, the guests
of American Board mi.s.sionaries. It is a
city of 50,000 inhabitants. The College,
Hospital and Girls' Seminary are doing a
great work there. About 100 boys are in
attendance and 80 girls. The latter school
has a very fine piano and the girls sang our
Gospel songs translated into Turkish. The
hospital has but one American nurse ; she
has native assistants and there are two Ar-
menian physicians.
Dr. Clara Hamilton, who came here a
year ago from New York, practices ex-
clusively among the women. Moslems are
especially glad to welcome her. The mis-
sionary work has advanced until more than
half of all that is done is by educated peo-
ple of the country. The pulpits of the
three Protestant churches, that have a mem-
bership of from three to five thousand, each,
are filled by Native pastors. Their Sunday-
school numbers 1,500, the girls' Christian
Endeavor Society 100, and the Y. M. C. A.
is well attended. Results show that the
missionaries have reaped abundant harvests
during their fifty years' work at Aintab.
Our journey from Aintab was over more
level and fertile land. Two days from
there we approached the Euphrates River.
The view from the plain of the mountains
with the city of Birejek at their foot was
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POST-HASTE FROM PRA.
[May,
very beautiful ; seen from a distance, the
limestone rocks looked like huge drifts of
snow that sparkled in the sunlight, but
the almost tropical heat of the plain dis-
pelled that illusion. We rode down into
the bed of the river, for at this season
there is water only in the main channel,
which is about 200 feet wide, and were
taken over in a ferry boat.
The next Sunday we spent in our tent, in
a little valley, where we found the first
green grass we saw in Turkey.
We had sent word to Mardin when we
were coming, so, as we approached within
five miles of the city, we met the mission-
aries coming to meet us. It was like coming
home to Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie, for they have
passed all their summers and several win-
ters here, during their ten years' residence
in Turkey. We spent a pleasant and profit-
able week here. I have been learning
something of the women in Mosul from
Miss Pratt, who has worked there for the
last three winters. She has been here
eighteen years. She visits homes in the
city during the summer and goes to mount-
ain villages and holds meetings in the
other months. She loves the mountain
work and does not seem afraid of its perils.
Only a few weeks ago, the house in which
she was holding a meeting was surrounded
by a mob, at the instigation of a Papist
priest, and some stones were thrown. The
congregation was allowed to disperse, but
she did not dare go out of doors. Some
of the gentlemen went for her, but could
not reach the village until she had been a
prisoner two days.
Mardin is built on the side of a mount-
ain 1,800 feet high. At the top are the
ruins of an old castle, and, half way down
to the plain, the summer home of the
Syrian Patriarch is situated. Mrs. Thom
took me to call on him, for every visitor is
expected to pay him a visit. He is the
head of the Jacobite Church, and bears the
same relation to it as the Pope bears to the
Catholic Church. He is an old man of
ninety-three years, wonderfully strong for
his age and very interesting.
The houses of the rich are made of stone
two or three stories high and are very com-
fortable until heavy rains come, when it is
necessary to constantly roll the flat, earth
roofs. The stone that is used for building
purposes is so porous that it becomes filled
with water in damp weather, making the
houses very unhealthy, unless fires are kept
burning. The missionaries were obliged to
build of this stone. Poor people live in
places that we would consider hardly fit for
pigs. Lillian D. Reinhart.
POST-HASTE FROM PRA.
[As the pages of this magazine are about to be closed up, here comes a welcome letter from Pra, bearing
date February 15. — Ed.]
We have lived in Muang Pra just three
months. Until two weeks ago we lived in
the dispensary building, which was put up
last June ; but we have vacated in order to
make room for the new missionaries, and
are now occupying a native house.
We had not been here long until we saw
that it would be necessary for us to buy two
native houses — one to be used as a chapel
and the other to live in until the physician's
house could be built. After some little
search, two very substantial ones were foimd
over in the city, which the owners wished
to sell. They were torn down, carried over
to the mission compounds and put up, with
a few changes and additions.
News has just come by telegram from
Bangkok that the Laos Missionary company
started up river on Feb. ist. I do not
mean you to infer that there is a telegraph
line between here and Bangkok, for there
is not ; this news came by way of Lakawn.
We hope now to start first of next week
for Ta It, where we will meet Mr. and Mrs.
Shields and bring them across country to
their new home and work. A warm wel-
come awaits them here from many natives,
who have long been asking about the "new
teachers " who are coming. Were we to
take all who wish to go with us to meet
them there would be not a small company.
The next few days will be busy ones, in-
deed, for us. There is a great deal to be
done in preparing for a trip in this coun-
try. Food must be taken, enough for
round trip, dishes, cooking utensils, bed-
ding, tent, chairs, etc., etc. But this is
not all. In this case we must leave every-
thing on the compound in the care of native
servants, so it is necessary to pack all goods
away carefully and to give orders to the
men about work to be done in our absence.
Annate lie K. Briggs.
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SIAM.
Miss Lizzie Eakin, writing from Bangkok, Jan.
3, of Christmas entertainments, said :
One of the attractions of the evening was the three
wise men of Ben Hur. The story had been trans-
lated into Siamese. Three of the teachers dressed in
the different costumes of the countries which they rep-
resented, recited the story, and every one listened
with intense interest.
The first Sabbath of December we held our usual
Communion service ; eight united with the Church,
seven young people and one old man. Four were
children of a Lao family whose history is very inter-
esting. They were slaves brought down here by
their master ; but a man in Bangkok assumed the
debt and freed them. Now they are all living on our
compound. While in Laoland, the father was a
member of Church but the mother was a strong Bud-
dhist and persecuted him in every way she could.
Since coming here, she has been converted and is
strong and happy in her faith. It is our custom, after
communion service, for all members of the church to
go forward and welcome the new ones. I suppose it
was the first time this mother had ever shaken hands
with her children, and, with the tears running down
her cheeks, all she could say was, ' ' I am so glad. ' '
A woman in my Bible class told me a few Sabbaths
ago that she had thrown the Buddhist religion away
and wanted to be a Christian. We feel that the spirit
of God has been with us, and touched hearts as they
have never yet been touched. Preaching services are
held every night this week in the white hall up in the
center of the city ; there is a good attendance and
great interest is shown.
I received a package of picture cards some time
ago, by mail. The wrapper had gotten wet and was
so torn I could not make out where they were from.
I thank whoever sent them very much.
CHINA.
Dr. Ruth C. Bliss, who, ever since she went out,
has been too closely driven, in hospital and out, about
Canton and over in Hainan, to often write letters,
■sent a brief message dated Canton, Jan. 1 1 :
These first few days of the New Year have been
the busiest for me since coming to China. I have
visited a number of patients in their homes, several of
whom it has been necessary to see daily, and these
have invited me to talk the ' ' Jesus doctrine. ' ' I have
always before had to introduce the subject myself.
In one place the women surrounded me and took
me into a large room where they had prepared a little
feast. I tried to talk a little and, each time I stopped,
they urged me to say more. I do so long to be able
to talk freely with them. When the medical students
accompany me, as one usually does, they help me out
by explaining my meaning where it is not clear and
talking more, besides what little I can say.
One poor woman said she desired to worship God
and she wanted to pray for money as she had none.
I told her that was not the most important thing, and
tried to explain what she must pray for. WTien I
arose to go, they gave me a much smaller fee than
they ought, but after what I had just said I did not
feel that I could ask for more, though I was sure the
family had plenty. At the next place, they gave me
a more generous fee before asking for the doctrine, so
I had no difficulty on that score. I am enjoying my
study of Chinese more and more, but there is so much
to learn it seems an endless task.
Dr. Rhuy Wilson Swan (Mrs. C. W. Swan)
wrote the fourth day " on the way to Kang Hau " :
We have been on the way up the river since Tues-
day afternoon and Mr. Lingle is with us, for which
we are thankful, for our knowledge of Chinese is very
limited as yet. We had our goods about packed last
Saturday, ready to spend a quiet Christmas and leave
on Tuesday. On Sabbath, report came from the
assistant at Kang Hau of a band of robbers through
that part of the country, so we spent Christmas Day
re-packing, leaving in Canton our silver, pictures,
extra bedding, etc. We think the reports are ex-
aggerated and do not fear any trouble ; still, we
thought we would be on the safe side and leave some
things behind until we get to the country and investi-
gate a little. Mr. and Mrs. Thwing started up a
week ago and will be there to receive us.
destination fixed CONTENTED.
We are so glad that we are to go to the country
and that was settled so soon after our arrival, the
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very afternoon we reached Canton, so that we have
not been in doubt at all as to what was to be our final
destination. Mr. Swan went up in November with
his brother, to see to painting and finishing the house.
He came back delighted with the place.
This trip up the river is a novel one, very delight-
ful when it is not too cold and the men are out towing
the boat, but, when they are poling, the noise they
make is simply distracting. Fortunately for us, we
anchor at night and will anchor on .Sabbath, so that
we get some quiet. We shall probably be about two
weeks on the journey. When we left Canton it was
very warm, but by yesterday it was so cold, with a
strong north wind blowing, that we could hardly keep
warm with heavy winter wraps on and a three-burner
oil stove going.
Our boat is about 50 ft. long by 12 ft. wide and
6^ high, in the highest part. Our bedroom is in
the front end of the boat and I always feel as though
I were in the garret when I go into it. There are no
windows but plenty of air gets in through the cracks.
Our boxes are piled around the sides of the room
while, in one comer, our bed springs rest on some of
them, so that we have a comfortable bed whatever
other inconveniences there may be.
The next room has windows and serves as dining-
room, sitting-room and Mr. Tingle's bedroom. Back
of this is a little room with two bunks where teacher
and cook sleep ; further back, the kitchen which I
prefer not to visit. In the stem of the boat are stowed
away at night, the ten boatmen and two Chinese
passengers. We get chickens, eggs, fish and some
vegetables along the way .so that we fare very well.
We are both happy and contented here and glad we
came. Our great desire now is that we may make
good progress with the language so that we may soon
work among the people. As I shall be the only
physician at our station, I do not want to begin
medical work until I have a pretty good hold on the
language. Pray that we may have help from above
in our study. We are the first of our missionaries to
begin the Hakka dialect instead of the Cantonese.
JAPAN.
Miss Clara H. Rose, formerly at Tokyo, wrote
from Sapporo, Jan. 26 :
How quickly and easily one is transported to the
ends of the earth in these modem times ! It seems
hardly possible that one who so recently walked the
crowded streets of New York, should now be in far
away Sapporo. Miss Wight and I had a delightful
voyage to Yokohama, via Honolulu. We found the
southern route in winter all that could be desired.
At Honolulu we were entertained right royally by
Mr. and Mrs. Damon. You can imagine that we
were interested in all we saw and heard of the
Hawaiian Islands, and will not be surprised that
we were charmed with their warmth and beauty ; nor
that we thought they should be "annexed" by all
means !
MISS S.MITH ILL — WORK PROSPEROUS.
On my arrival in Sapporo last week, I found Miss
Smith ill with influenza ; and as there is no foreign
physician here, we were very anxious. However, a
Japanese doctor is proving himself skillful, and our
patient is improving under his care.
A glorious work has been done here, both in the
church and school, and we have reason to be
proud of our heroine who has toiled so long alone.
Japanese helpers have been well trained and are be-
coming efficient and responsible ; consequently the
work of the foreigner grows lighter, and he needs
much wisdom to work side by side with his native
helper, yet a little while.
In our school are about fifty pupils ; and the church
mmibers seventy members. Five of our students will
be added to this number at the next Communion.
a SAPPORO SUNDAY.
Last Sabbath, when we ventured out in the deep,
deep snow after a week of intensely cold and stormy
weather, the out-door world was a picture of loveli-
ness. The sun had come out bright and warm on
newly-fallen snow, and every roof and branch and
distant hill was glorified.
When we had reached the church and deposited
our shoes on a shelf in the entry and passed into the
audience room, we were greeted by a bright charcoal
fire on a bed of ashes in a large square hole in the
floor, over-hung by the cheery kettle, which .sang a
promise of tea in the near future. Having deposited
ourselves on the mats, with feet tucked neatly away,
we found that we were in the midst of a large and
lively Sunday-school ; when we say large and lively
we do not count the babies, for, tied to the back
under the haori, with only a small head protruding,
baby is one with his nurse. After vigorous singing
and Bible study for an hour, Sunday-school evolved
into the church audience, the minister appeared in the
pulpit, sermon began, and, but for his environment,
his aching feet, bad ventilation, and the strange
tongue of the speaker, one might fancy himself in a
softly cushioned church in America. The Board and
Mission, through efforts of Miss Smith and Japanese
Christians, have kindly granted a thousand dollars for
a new church building in Sapporo. A beautiful site
has been selected, and it is expected that building will
commence in the spring.
Last Sabbath aftemoon I began teaching the Bible
to a class of young men from the government college ;
they came to make application and I was glad to com-
ply with their request, as most of them are not
Christians. Another petition has come in from some
business men for an evening class in English ; Miss
Smith and I are the only foreigners here now, and we
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are in great demand for English. Government has
kindly granted this school its buildings for the last
five years ; the lease expires next June, and, as the
present governor is opposed to Christianity, we do not
know exactly what will become of us.
Although some dark phases of mission life have
recently presented themselves, on the whole, we are
encouraged ; for when we realize what has been
accomplished in this one locality, by a single worker,
how could it be otherwise ?
SYRIA.
women's meetings.
Mrs. Wm. K. Eddy wrote from Sidon, Feb. 17 :
The individual schools are very much alike from
year to year, and it is only occasionally that we hear
of any startling incident. Thursday afternoon meet-
ings for Christian women have been very poorly at-
tended this winter. Several of the women who are
church members have quarrels among themselves and
only a very small number seem to value the oppor-
tunity. Still, we have had some pleasant meetings.
Mrs. Dale helps me, this year, in meetings for
Moslem women on Wednesday mornings. It is such
a help to have her zeal and tact and her familiarity
with the idioms of the language. I enjoy these meet-
ings much more than the others. We have made use
of pictures for the first time in the Moslem meetings.
We have one of the Sunday-school lesson charts,
illustrating scenes in the life of Christ. The average
attendance has not been much over twenty, and they
have been more quiet and attentive than when we
used to have a large number, so it has seemed to me
more satisfactory than when we had fifty and only a
handful of them could hear what was said.
I hold these meetings during the winter months
only, as many of the women work in the fields in
the spring and they do not like to attend after
their month of fasting begins. .So we shall have
finished these meetings before my letter will reach you.
SUNDAY AT AN OUTSTATION.
Last Sunday I rode up with Mr. Eddy to Mejdu-
luna to attend the Communion service. That congre-
gation is one of the most interesting in our field. It
was a beautiful day, and there were people present
from six different villages. Two infants were bap-
tized. The church was full, and, both before and
after service, an interesting group of women gathered
with me for instruction and prayer. I had talks with
two who are applying for admission to the church.
Miss Louise Law went with us. It was her first
visit to a village. We had our dinner at the house of
the native preacher, sitting on cushions about a low
round table, eating the large thin loaves of Arab
bread and various preparations of rice with a boiled
chicken and a few simple native sweets. After a
second service we returned to Sidon before dark.
A DRUZE CUSTOM.
We had an interesting experience, recently, in calling
on the families of some Druze Begs in a small village
near us. There had been a death in the family, a
young man, from malignant small-pox. His sister
told us that his favorite horse had been taken to visit
his grave, the animal being first decorated with costly
silver trappings. They represented that the horse
manifested great intelligence, stamping and pawing
on the grave in token of his grief On their return
from the grave, they took the horse into the room
in which his master died ! Mr. Hoskins tells me that
a similar farce was enacted near Zahleh in the case of
the death of a prominent man, and that, at the close,
the horse was slashed to pieces with the swords of the
actors in the scene, as they did not wish any one to
ride him.
COLOMBIA.
ARRIVED.
Miss Nevegold, who left New York last Novem-
ber, wrote from Bogota, Jan. 31 :
November 21 I arrived at Barranquilla, where I
received a warm welcome from Mrs. Pond. On the
25th I started up the long, hot river journey, and on
December 4, at noon, the boat steamed into Las
Yeguas, the end of the river journey. Miss Hunter
and Mr. Miles met me here, and that same day we
started for Honda, arriving there about five that even-
ing. Next day, at noon, we started on that terrible,
never-to-be-forgotten mule ride over the mountains.
About an hour out from Honda, the crupper of my
saddle broke and I was thrown from my mule while
coming down quite a .steep place. I never was a
successful rider at home and was always afraid of
horses. However, at the end of four days of mental
and physical anguish I arrived in Bogota.
I have been very well and happy most of the time.
To-morrow school opens and I shall be very glad.
ALSO arrived.
Miss Riley wrote from Barranquilla, Jan. 31 :
I arrived safely in Barranquilla, yesterday. Had no
trouble whatever in regard to the journey ; you re-
member I had some anxiety about this, as I was to
come alone, but I got along very nicely (of course had
that very unpleasant sea-sickness). When we arrived
at Savanilla, I found that Mr. Ladd, not being able
to meet me himself, had kindly sent another gentle-
man, who came right to the ship and saw me to the
house here in Barranquilla.
Soon after my arrival I was happy to meet the
other missionaries, whose warm, hearty welcome made
me feel at home in a strange new country, to which I
trust I shall soon become accustomed, and take part
in the work which has been entrusted to our hands.
[May,
PROGRAMME FOR JUNE MEETING— AFRICA.
"Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God." — Revised Version.
Scripture Reading : Ps. Ixxxvii.
Hymn : "The morning light is breaking," or 232, Gospel Hymns No. 5.
I. The Past.
Outline of Presbyterian Work from the First. — Historical Sketches.
Abandonment of the Ogowe. — Woman' s Work, vol. ix, p. 47.
Statistics of our Africa Missions. — The Church, vol. xiii, p. 441.
(Other work than our own.)
Women of Egypt. — Miss. Review, vol. vi, p. 895.
Prayer of Thanks for the Past.
II. The Present.
Hymn : " Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning."
Results Shown by Incidents.
Faithful unto death. — PVoman's Work, vol. ix, p. 69. " Mama Doctor," p. 72. Mrs. De
Heer, from Benito. — vol. viii, p. 252. Hard Work and a Holiday. — p. 305. The Return. —
vol. ix, p. 20. Baptisms at Batanga. — vol. viii, p. 205 ; Miss. Review, vol. vi, p. 639. A Good
Record for the Past Year. — IVoman' s Work, vol. viii, p. 290. Present Statistics.
( Other work. )
The Church of Rome compelled to circulate the Bible.— ^/m. Revie7v, vol. vii, p. 160. Mackay's
Uganda. — Woman's Work, vol. ix, p. 3. Bishop Tucker's preaching and the interment of Bishop
Hannington's Remains.— vol. viii, p. 178 ; Miss. Re7'ie7u, vol. vi, p. 456.
III. The Prospect.
Hymn : " Hail to the Lord's Anointed," or 213, Gospel Hymns No. 5.
Prayer of Petition for the Future.
The New Work.
Mr. Good's Exploration. — Woman's Work, vol. viii, pp. 63, 159, 177. Choice of the New
Station. — p. 152. News from the Bule Country. — p. 205. Encouraging Prospect. — p. 262.
First Mission House at Nkonemekak. — vol. ix, p. 29. Name of the New Station. — The Church,
vol. XV, p. 213. New Church at Ubenje. — vol. xiv, p. 115. Improved Health of Missionaries.
— Miss. Review, vol. vi, p. 926.
( Other work.)
Uganda and its Martyrs. — The Church, vol. xiv, p. 190. One Minute from Cape Colony to
Cairo. — Woman's Work, vol. iv, p. 3. Christian Colony in W. Africa. — Miss. Revie7v,\o\.\\,
p. 53. An Enlightened Chief. — vol. vii, p. 106. A Voice from South Africa. — vol. vi, p. 423.
Williamsport, Pa.
Eijwia Smuller Carter.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR A WOMAN WRITING HER
FIRST MISSIONARY PAPER.
The manner in which the invitation to
write a missionary paper is received has a
great deal to do with its success or failure.
If it is accepted in a half-hearted, ungra-
cious way, as if it were a great bore and
you only accepted because you were ashamed
to decline, you may rest assured that you
will receive no enjoyment in writing your
paper, and your hearers but little pleasure
and profit in listening to it. So, begin by
accepting the invitation to take a country
or topic for a certain month with a gracious
manner, and say you will do the best you
can. It will be of as much help to the presi-
dent of the society as to yourself.
Do not wait till a few days before the
meeting to begin your paper, as so many
do, but as soon as you reach home write
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down your topic, and begin to cast about
in your mind what you would like to say
and what books you can consult.
Enthusiasm is a requisite for success in
any undertaking, and in writing a mission-
ary paper it holds a first place. By using the
following methods enthusiasm can be en-
kindled. I know this from experience :
First. — Have a commonplace-book in
which to write any helpful thought you may
get while talking with friends ; or to copy
a sentence or paragraph from a borrowed
book or paper ; or an illustration that
flashes through your mind at a most unex-
pected time or place, and which, if not put
down, is apt to be forgotten. I have lost
such a good topic for a Bible study just for
the lack of making a note of it, and I can-
not recall it though I have tried many
times.
At 's you will find blank books
which are just what you want. They cost
only three cents, have thirty leaves, which
give sixty blank pages. These are better
than writing tabs for notes, for being bound
they are always in place and do not get
torn or lost.
Second. — Have a large business envelope
or an empty envelope box in which to put
clippings from the newspapers relating to
your country or topic. Take them from
the daily and religious papers and select
items of all kinds.
Third. — Have a mucilage bottle, for you
will want to paste .several short clippings
upon a half sheet of paper, so that you may
give a part of your information, in a con-
venient form, to some member of your
society to read at the meeting. Perhaps
some of you ladies have a bottle like mine.
It is several inches high and has a glass
cover which goes over the entire brush, so
that the handle is never sticky and the
brush is always ready for use. It is "a joy
forever," not for its beauty, but for its
great utility.
Fourth. — Subscribe for as many mission-
ary magazines as you can possibly afford.
Of course you will take Woman'' s Work for
Woman, and, if you have children. Over
Sea a7id Land. Read both thoroughly,
and if you have not The Church at Horne
and Abroad, borrow from a friend. At
your Board Rooms you will always find
missionary biographies, The Missionary
Review and books of reference.
Every housekeeper knows how easy it is
to get into a rut and have the same dishes
for the table over and over again, week in
and week out. Have you never been so
tired with your work for the public and
your home cares that all you could think of
for dinner was beef-steak and mashed po-
tatoes ? I have, and then I take down Mrs.
Henderson, Marion Harland and Miss
Parloa, and read their tempting recipes till
my mouth waters, and I have no trouble in
ordering what I shall have for dinner. So,
in order to spread a tempting feast for your
missionary meeting, you must study the
magazines till your heart burns within you
at what you learn of the missionaries, and
how God is blessing His Word to the con-
version of the heathen.
By this time you will find your enthusi-
asm glowing, and now you are ready to
make the skeleton of your paper, dividing
it into heads. Here you will find your
commonplace-book and envelope of clip-
pings and mucilage bottle and missionary
magazines of the greatest help. Select
carefully what you think of interest and
value, and fill in your skeleton. It is prob-
able that you will not be satisfied with the
result ; but, put away your paper for a few
days, then read it over and you will be able
to make the needed alterations, culling out
superfluous matter and changing the sen-
tences until they run smoothly.
"But this takes so much time," some
one will say. Of course it does, but it is
time well spent. It takes time to have a
pretty gown made, but I have yet to know
the woman who foregoes the gown because of
the time spent upon it. It takes time
and strength to go to an afternoon re-
ception to meet a company of women
each one talking at the top of her lungs,
trying to make herself heard above the con-
fusion of voices and the inane tinkling of
Tomaso's Mandolin Orchestra hidden be-
hind a screen of palms and ferns, but the
women all go ! You are familiar with
" Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-
Yard." The English is so beautiful and
the lines flow so naturally and smoothly
that it seems as if it might have been writ-
ten under the inspiration of the twilight
hours of some lovely summer day, with the-
rural scene spread out before the poet's
eyes. But it took Gray seven years to per-
fect this exquisite gem. He began it in
1742, revised it several times and finished
it in 1749. Even then, he did not give it
to his publishers for two years. As a result
of this patient labor his beautiful verses will
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. — TO THE AUXILIARIES.
live as long as the English language is
spoken. Surely every woman will be will-
ing to give hours and days in gathering ma-
terial for a missionary paper, when she con-
siders that she is writing about the King-
dom of Christ, which is an everlasting
Kingdom.
Copy your paper neatly and have it
ready several days before the meeting, and,
when the day arrives, go to your society
feeling you have a pleasant part to take in
it. Read your paper in your cheeriest
voice and most animated manner, as if you
enjoyed it, and you will, I promise you,
and your hearers will enjoy it, too.
G. a s.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. J. M. McCauley of Tokyo, Japan,
returns thanks to "the church in Mauch
Chunk, Pa.," for a package of illustrated
Sunday-school cards sent her before Christ-
mas. She says: "The donors' address
was on the wrapper and has been mis-
placed, so that I have no way to thank
them personally for assisting us so much.
The titles were translated into Japanese and
written under the English, so that all the
pictures are now little sermons in more than
a hundred homes."
Miss Wherry of Jagraon (near Lodiana),
India, also wishes to acknowledge with
hearty thanks a box sent some time ago,
addressed to herself at Dehra, and no clue
as to the names of the senders. She sup-
posed the box was intended for Dehra
school and turned it over, accordingly.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
T/ie Conversion of India. From Pantaenus to
the Present Time, A.D. 193-1893. George Smith,
C.I.E., LL.D. (Fleming H. Revell Company.)
The author's missionary biographies are so well
known as to require no endorsement for this new
volume, in respect of thoroughness and scholarship.
It is not "interesting" in the popular sense, but the
well-informed worker will find it valuable.
Heavenly Pearls Set in a Life. Lucy D. Osbom.
(Fleming H. Revell Company.)
Among the Matabele. Rev. D. Carnegie. (Flem-
ing H. Revell Company.) 128 pp.
Unpretentious and truthful and of some special in-
terest, while the struggle between Lobengula and the
British South Africa Company is fresh in mind.
There is a good chapter upon Khama, the Christian
Bechuana Chief
Murdered Millions. Geo. D. Dowkontt, M.D.
This is a collection of chapters reprinted from the
Medical Missionary Record, and is issued from that
office. Price, paper, 15 cts.; cloth, 30 cts.
Be Perfect. Andrew Murray. (Anson D. F.
Randolph & Company. ) Price 75 cents.
To the Auxiliaries.
[For address of each headquarters and lists of officers see third page of cover.]
From Philadelphia.
Send all letters to 1334 Chestnut Street.
Directors' Meeting first Tuesday of the month,
at II A.M., and prayer-meeting third Tuesday,
at II A.M., in the Assembly Room. Visitors
welcome.
The Annual Meeting of the Corporation of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia) will be
held at 1334 Chestnut Street on Tuesday, May
I, 1894, at II A.M. L. E. Miller,
Recording Secretary.
Envelopes for Praise Meetings, Certificates
fot Bands and Certificates for Babies are
frequently sent for in such large quantities,
that it is thought there may sometimes be an
excess in the number needed. If there is such
a surplus, we should be very glad to have
them returned to headquarters, if sent in as
good condition as when first forwarded.
So many applications have been received
for our Foreign Alission Topics for Y. P. S.
C. E. and Mission Bands that it has been
found necessary to place a price upon them.
In our own territory, free, except for postage,
3 cents per dozen. All outside of our limits
may receive them at 2 cents each ; 20 cents
per dozen.
Remittances of Canada money, in payment
for leaflets, frequently come to us. As this
currency is no more legal tender here than
elsewhere in the United States, please forbear
sending it.
The Utile Peach Seed teaches in an attract-
ive way a very appropriate and wholesome
lesson to the children. Price, i cent each ;
10 cents per dozen.
" Little Lights," an excellent exercise for
mission bands, published in January number
of ' ' Over Sea and Land, ' ' has met with such a
hearty reception and so many applications for
it in separate form have been received that it
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can now be purchased by sending to Over Sea
and Land, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pa. 2 cents each ; 15 cents per dozen ; ^i.oo
per hundred.
From C J lie ago.
Meetings at Room 48 McCormick Block, 69
and 71 Dearborn Street, every Friday at 10 a.m.
Visitors welcome.
We fear the "Whisper to AuxiHaries " on
first page in March was hardly loud enough to
be heard, judging from the orders which are
missent. We ought not perhaps to complain
about our women when pastors of churches
send letters and probably remittances for the
treasurer of the General Board to headquarters
of a Woman's Board.
When this page is read the Twenty-third
Annual Meeting will be a thing of the past.
In the June number we shall have no Notes,
but, instead, a condensed account of that meet-
ing. Before the July number is out, we hope
the Secretary of each Society and Band will
have received the Annual Report. Please
notice this and if a copy is 7iot at hand by
July, notify us and a second will be sent. If
Honorary and Life Members wish a copy, to
which each is entitled, please send present ad-
dress. We sometimes hear at the close of a
year, "We have never received a copy of the
report;" we hope the above note will be heeded
and no such word come early in 1895.
Our Board of the Northwest has, within the
past few months, lost two of its honored Pres-
byterial Treasurers. First, Mrs. Thos. G.
Rainey, of La Fayette, Ind., who for years
had been a most efficient and faithful worker ;
more recently, Mrs. J. F. Seeley, of Caro,
Mich., whom the Father called with hardly a
moment's warning. The words concerning
both, which have come to us from pastors and
friends, tell of beautiful lives. Our prayer is
that their mantles may fall on others who will
take up the work laid down by them.
We have sustained another great loss in the
going Home of Mrs. M. E. Brown, of Val-
paraiso, Ind., an aged saint whose prayers for
missions and her "beloved Board of the
Northwest," will be missed indeed. One of
our Vice-Presidents, too, Mrs. J. D. Webster,
to whom our work was very dear, has been
called up higher.
Reports of delightful Praise Meetings have
come from many quarters. Ypsilanti, Mich.,
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their
missionary organization in March, beginning
with a Praise Service on Friday the i6th.
Sunday morning the pastor preached upon the
"Reflex Influence of Missions," and in the
evening there was given a review of the
cjuarter-century and exercises by the Young
People's Band and Christian Endeavor So-
ciety.
The beautiful little silver badges, "The
World for Christ," may be had by our mem-
bers for 25 cents.
We have five leaflets now ready for societies;
reprints of Dollars for Self and Cents for
Christ. I cent each ; 10 cents per dozen.
Unemployed Talent in the Churches. 2 cents
each; 15 cents per dozen. New; Some
Methods of Work, The Women of Mexico,
Vow and Pay unto the Lord your God. Each
2 cents ; 15 cents per dozen. Address W. P.
B. M., Room 48, McCormick Block, Chicago,
III.
From New York.
Prayer-meeting at 53 Fifth Ave. the first Wed-
nesday of each month at 10.30 A.M. Each other
Wednesday there is a half-hour meeting for
prayer and the reading of missionary letters,
commencing at the same hour.
The Annual Meeting of the Presbyterial
Missionary Society of New York City was
held in the First Church on the afternoon of
March 8. Miss Babbitt presented vividly and
touchingly the story of "One Day of Mission-
ary Life " among the women and children of
India.
Mrs. Z. M. Humphrey gave an ideal ad-
dress to those at home who have the responsi-
bility of sustaining the work abroad. May
her eloquent plea be long an inspiration.
Mrs. L. J. DooLiTTLE is the widow of the
Rev. Justus Doolittle who with his wife went
to China under the American Board in 1866..
They afterward united with the Presbyterian
Mission, and during her whole stay in China
Mrs. Doolittle was connected with the Central
Mission in school work, and also edited a
children's paper at Foochow. Although she
has been some time in America, she feels she
could in six months be ready to do effiicent
work in the language of the people, and we
cordially welcome her to work for our Board
there once more. She expects to sail in July..
Societies and Bands are requested to send
all contributions to boxes for Siam, China,
Persia and Africa to Miss A. L. Denny, 53-
Fifth Ave., by May 20. For India, Japan and
Syria by June 20.
From Northern New York.
At this writing, we are busy with final
preparations for the Annual Meeting at Glens
Falls. Reports are not yet made up, and we-
must still wait a few days longer before we can
know whether we have fulfilled the pledges;
made at Saratoga.
When this is read, the Twenty-second An-
nual Meeting will be a thing of the past.
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NEl'l' AUXILIARIES.—
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
[May,
What result it will have upon the work for the
coming year depends very largely upon what
use you, who were delegates, make of it. Be-
fore the enthusiasm of the meeting has quite
died away, we want to urge the Auxiliaries and
Bands to lose no time in planning their cam-
paign for the new year of '94-' 95. Now is the
time, when your own heart is stirred, to stir up
the flagging interest or indifference of your
neighbors. If your Society or Band has gotten
into ruts, as we are all liable to do, now is the
time, while your own heart is full of a new en-
thusiasm and consecration, to try to infuse
new life into it, to try new methods and plans
for interesting and holding the members.
This is, of all the time of the year, the best
to make an effort in your church to increase
the circulation of the magazines. We cannot
expect people to be interested in missions, un-
less they are intelligently informed on the sub-
ject, so to a large extent the interest in mis-
sions in your church will depend upon the
circulation of our missionary periodicals.
From San Ft'ayicisco.
Board Meeting, first Monday of each month,
at 920 Sacramento Street ; business meeting at
10.30 A.M. ; afternoon meeting and exercises by
Chinese girls in the Home at 2 p.m. Visitors
welcome.
Many are the meetings held in our new
Mission Home ; meetings of the Occidental
Board, receptions to outgoing missionaries,
meetings of Young People's Socjeties, and
meetings in the interest of the Woman's Con-
gress of Missions soon to be held in this city.
A FEW weeks ago a meeting of unusual in-
terest was held in the Home. Among the
speakers were the Rev. J. Hudson Taylor and
Miss Geraldine Guinness. The house was
crowded to the doors. We believe God spoke
to every one who heard these speakers — spoke
in such way that they will hereafter have a
deeper interest in His work throughout the
world.
In the evening of the same day a farewell
reception was tendered these friends in Calvary
Church, when many had the privilege of again
hearing them tell of the wonderful way in
which God had led them.
Annual Meeting of the Young People's
Presbyterial Society of San Francisco was held
in the Mission House on the evening of March
16. Each society presented a book to the
library, and told of the help the book had
been to them. In this way our missionary
library, for the use of our auxiliaries, has been
started. May many more follow the ex-
ample of the young people.
Annual Meeting of the Occidental Board,
to be held April 5 and 6, will be reported in
the next number of Woman's Work.
NEW AUXILIARIES AND BANDS.
■CALIFORNIA.
Azusa, S.C.E.
Berkeley, Busy Bees.
Brooklyn, King's Daughters.
Golden Gate, S.C.E.
Los Angeles, ist, S.C.E.
" " Golden Star (Chinese).
North Temescal, S.C.E.
Oakland, ist. S.C.E.
Ontario, S. S. Band.
Riverside, S.C.E.
San Francisco, ist, S.C.E.
" " " Infant Class.
" " Howard, S.C.E.
" *' Trinity, S.C.E.
" " Westminster, S.C.E.
Tustin, Sunday-school.
DELAWARE.
Lewes, S.C.E.
ILLINOIS.
Mansfield.
INDIANA.
Lucerne.
Monon.
Receipts of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church from
March i, 1894.
[presbyteries in small capitals.]
Athens. — Athens, 12.82, S.C.E., Jr., 10; Barlow, 9.05;
Berea, 14 ; Carthage, 5 ; Guysville, 8.65, S.C.E., 2.50 ; Logan,
■S.C.E., Jr., 5; McConnellsville, 15, S.C.E., 6.50; Marietta,
S.S., 13.65: Middleport, is. 75, S.C.E., i; New Matamoras,
Mrs. Mary Braun, 25; New Plymouth, 52; Warren, 13.25,
S.C.E., 2, J211.17
Baltimore. — Aberdeen, Grove, 30. 8^ ; Baltimore, Aisquith
St., 118 ; Boundary Ave., 9, Boys and Girls' Links, 11.26 ;
Broadway. 46.13; Brown Mem., 272,09, Mrs. Jones Bd, 75,
Casket of Jewels, 10, Handful of Corn, 40, Inf. CI., 50. S.S.,
50; Central, 211, Seek and Save Bd., 50, Dugdale Bd., 20,
Buds of Promise, 30, S S., 150 ; Faith Ch., 47.30, Workers, 89,
Cheerful Workers, 4.70. Liglit Bearers, 14.42, Co-workers, 6;
First Ch., 511.86, Girls' Bd., 50, Golden Rule Bd., 10, S.S.,
100. : Second, 43.27, Earnest Workers, 30, Willing Hearts,
17. II, Alexr. Proudfit Bd., 20.65, R- H. Smith, 15. S.C.E.,
Jr., 2 : Twelfth, 52.61 ; Lafayette Sq., 73. so. Earnest Workers,
15; Light St., 2148, Willing Workers, 40, S.C.E., Jr., 5;
Park, 25- Ridgeley St., 40, Morning Star Bd., 10, King's
Little Builders, 10 ; Waverly, 18, Willing Workers, g, S.C.E.,
35.81; Westm'r, 64.80; Belair, 31.50; Bethel, 40, Evening
Star Bd., 12.43 : Chestnut Grove, 19 ; Churchville, 48.35 ; Elli-
cott City, Rose of Sharon Bd., 57.21; Emmittsburg, 34, Do
what you can Bd., 4.18; Govanstown, 9 ; Hagerstown, 32;
Hampden, 10; Lonaconing, 25 ; Piney Creek, 31 ; Guli-a-nar
Bd. (disbanded), 29.37; Mrs. J. B. Moore, 295 ; Col. at An.
Meeting. 50, 3,283.88
Blairsville. — Armagh, 15 ; Beulah. 23.20, Bd., 2 ; Blairs-
ville, 7.76, In His Name Bd., 1.56, Rays of Light, 17.78 ;
Braddock, 20 ; Congruity. 12 ; Derry, 27.40, Bessie Milliken
Bd., 5.32 S.C.E., II, S.C.E., Jr., i.oi ; Ebensburg, 25, King's
Daughters, 11.25 • Greensburg, ist, 72 ; Greensburg, Westm'r,
10, S.C.E., Jr., 6.70; Harrison City, 15; Irwin, 20.95, Little
Lights, 2.64 ; Jeannette, 13.75; Johnstown, 18.40, Y\L.B., 4,
I will try Bd., 5, Boys', 36.50, MorrelleviUe. 90 cts. ; Latrobe,
45.77; Ligonier, 20.40; Manor, 17. 17, Murrysville, 120, Boys
and Girls' Bd., 32 ; Murrj'sville. W. M., 29, Jessie Porter Bd.,
13 ; New Alexandria, 6, Y.L.B., 12 ; New Salem, 40 ; Par-
nassus, 52.99, " W." in Mem., 100, S.S.. 65 ; Pine Run. 52.55,
Orr Bd., 7.26 ; Plum Creek, 20; Poke Run, 7.28, Silver Links,
2.61 ; Turtle Creek, Macedonian Bd., 11.63 ; Unity, 15, Girls'
Bd., 20, 1,076.08
Carlisle. — Carlisle, ist, 72.14, S.S., 25.75, Golden Chain
Bd., 63 ; Carlisle, 2d. 73.81, Y.L.B., 12.45, Boys' Bd., 5 ; Metz-
gar Ins't, 6; Chambersburg, Central. 45.90, Y.L.B., 16.50,
Sunshine Bd., 10; Chambersburg, Falling Spring, 201.58,
Y.L.B., 173.85, L. L. Bearers, 3 75; Wilson College, 50;
Dauphin, 25; Dickinson, 11.60; Dillsburg, 37.62, S.C.E,,
10. t;8, Golden Rule Bd., 3; Duncannon, 25.42; Gettysburg,
98.83; Greencastle, 27.32, Y.L.B., 18.75, Lilies of the Valley,
18.75 ; Harrisburg, Market Sq., 93, Women's Prayer Meeting,
16.40, Macedonian Bd., 100, Memorial of C. M. Fleming, 50,
John A. Wier Bd., 31.82 ; Pine St., 122, Y.L.B., 43.30, What-
soever Bd., 30, Gen. Fund Bd., 10, Reapers, 7.50, Anything
1894 ] TREASURERS' REPORTS.
for Jesus Bd., 7.50, M. Campbell Bd 15, Chambers Bd., 10,
S. H. Kautz's CI., 10, Miss Pollock's CI., 10, Mrs. A. B. Ham-
ilton's, 20, Mrs. James Boyd's, 20 ; Olivet, 8 ; Westm'r, 33.05,
S.S., 29.68; Lebanon, Christ Ch., 20, S.C.E., 5; Lower
Marsh Creek, 14.75 ; Lower Path Valley, 25, Willing Work-
ers, 3.06 ; McConnellsburg, 21, Coral Workers, 15 ; Mechan-
icsburg, 70, Birthday Bd.,7; Mercersburg, 16.05, Y. L B., 23,
Thos. Creigh Bd., 29.33, L. L. Bearers, 1.75 ; Middle Spring,
32.20; Middletown, 6.50; Millerstown, 4.50; New Bloom-
field, 19.28, Bd., 93 cts., S.C.E., 90 cts. ; Newville, Big Sp.,
47, Hope Bd., 29, Wide Awake Bd., 8.78 ; Hopeful Workers,
225.87, Y.L.B., 42, Dewdrops, 7 ; Paxton, 25, Ch. Givers, 30 ;
Shippensburg, 74.25, Y.P.B., 30, Hull Bd., 15 ; Silver Spring,
20.50; Steelton. 4.18 ; St. Thomas, 11. 14, Children's Bd.,8.36;
Upper Path Valley, 10.30 ; Waynesboro, 22, 2,630.38
Chester. — Atglen,25; Avondale, 35.75, Harvesters, 17.13 ;
Berwyn, 28, Boys' Bd , 6, Mustard Seeds, 5, Willing Workers,
1.25, S.C. E., 2 ; Bryn Mawr, 118.69 ; Chester, ist, 5, S.C.E., 10;
Chester, 2d, 12.93, Mary Reany Bd.,29, S.C.E., 2.50, SS., 25;
Chester, 3d, 20 ; Christiana, 20.50; Coatesville, 40 ; Darby Bor-
ough, 31.10, Sunbeam Bd., 6; Downingtown, 46.61, Agnes
Bd., 14, S.S., 36.55 ; E. Whiteland, 18.60 ; Fagg's Manor, 70 ;
Fairfield, 12 ; Forks of Brandywine, 45 ; Great Valley, 8 ;
Honeybrook, 85.50, S.C.E., 10; Kennett Sq,, 35, Golden Rule
Bd., 11.50, S.C.E.,6, S.C.E.. Jr., 3.50; Lansdowne, Y.L.B.,
10; Marple, 33.33, Phil Thomas Bd., 10; Media, 95.10;
Middletown, 18.16, Perseverance Bd., 9.75, Earnest Workers,
10; Mt. Pleasant, 10.63; Narberth, S.C.E., 8 ; New London,
40.69 ; Oxford. 1st. 100, India Chapter, 15, Syria Chapter. 40,
S.C.E., Jr., 3.81 ; Phoenixville, 67.59 ; Ridley Park, 56, Dew-
drop Bd., 5 ; Toughkenamon, 16.45 '. Upper Octorara, 100,
Bands, 40, Hope and Trust Bd., 6, S.C.E., 2.50; Wayne,
74, Y.L.B., 10.11 ; West Chester, 1st, 267.26, Willing Hands,
15; West Chester, Westm'r, 121.78, S.S.. 6, S.C.E., 14,
S.C.E , Jr., 5 : West Grove, 23.45 ; A Friend, 100, 2,172.99
Chillicothe. — Bainbridge, 50 cts. ; Bloomingburg, 4,
Gleaners, 9, Buds of Promise, 5, S.C.E. , 3.20 ; Chillicothe, ist,
97.90, Earnest Workers, 10, S.C.E., 5; Chillicothe, 3d, 12.60,
Inf. CI.. 5.82, S.C.E., 5; Concord, 14.30; Frankfort, 8;
Greenfield, 3.91, Snowflakes, 7.42 ; Hamden, 11 ; Hillsboro",
54; Mt. Pleasant, 5; Marshall, 1; North Fork, 11.28, Ch.
Givers, 3.13; Pisgah, 9; Salem, 11; Union, 4.50; Washing-
ton C. H., 31.76, Young Girls, 6.90, Golden 'Threads, 12.50,
S.C.E., 3 ; Waverly, 50 cts. ; Wilmington, S.C.E., 5, 361.04
Elizabeth.— Col. by Mrs. W. E. Knox, 52-54
HoLSTON. — Johnson City, 6.15
Huntingdon. — Alexandria, 53.10, John Porter Bd., 28.50;
Altoona, 1st, 28.78. Helpers, 11 • Altoona, 2d, 47.75, Y.L.B.
(legacy Mrs. E. W. Knox, 82.34), 137.34, Allegheny Ed , 5 ;
Altoona, 3d. Y.L.B. , 25 ; Altoona, Broad St., 17, Y.L.B., 5.50,
Boys' Brigade, 5 ; Bedford, 18.80; Bellefonte, 12.43; Birming-
ham, Mountain Sem. Bd.,ioo; Curwensville, King's Daugh-
ters, 30 ; Duncansville, 10.20; Hollidaysburg, C. Irvine Bd.,
3, Valley Gleaners, 9.14, Willing Workers, 25.50; Houtzdale,
11 ; Huntingdon, S.S., 11.09 ; Logan's Valley, 19 ; Lost Creek,
L. L. Bearers, 1.25; Lower Spruce Creekj 28.25, S.C.E., 3 ;
Mifflintown, 23.60, Y.L.B., 6, Cedar Spring Bd., 12.39 ; M'-
Union, 12.95, Y.L.B., 21, Y.L.B., Jr., 20, Daisy Bd., 10.05 ;
Osceola (L.L.B., 3.50), 50 ; Phillipsburg, 15.46; Port Royal,
11.21, S.S., 3.50 ; Sinking Valley, 7.99, Valley Gleaners, 15.63 ;
Spring Creek, 47.60; Spruce Creek (L.L.B., 5.25), 432.25,
Colerain Forge S.S., 64 6;, Cool Run Bd., 10.50, 1-will-try Bd.,
2.60 ; State College, 31.10; Tyrone, Moore Bd., (L.L.B., 1.50),
44.85, S.C.E., 26 ; Winbum, 13 ; Mrs. H. L. Book, Shade Val-
ley, 10, 1,538.96
Jersey City'. — Col. by Mrs. W. E. Knox, 70.15
Kittanning. — Parker City S.C.E., 29.55
Lehigh. — AUentown, 64.25, Loring Circle, 6, Bd. of Hope,
11; Audenreid, 11.47: Bangor, 11 ; Bethlehem, 39.93, Mus-
grave Bd., 28, Wide Awake, 11 ; Catasauqua, 1st, 51.40, Busy
Bees, 19; Catasauqua, Bridge St., Bd., 31.45; Del. Water
Gap, 43; Easton, 1st, 76.18, Y.L.B., 25. Loring Bd., 20,
Olivet Chapel, W. Workers, 5, Mclntire Circle, 10 ; Brainerd
Union, 184, Isabella Nassau Bd.. 118, Helen Knox Bd., 40,
S.C.E., 25; Hazleton, 115.64, Wild Daisy Bd., 5, S.S., 25;
Hokendauqua. 14. Ch. Workers, 7 ; Lock Ridge, 23 ; Mahanoy
City, 25.80, Golden Hour Circle, 9.70; Mauch Chunk, 185.72,
Little Workers, 40, Boys' Brigade. 10.10, Ferrier Bd., 6.37,
L. L. Bearers, 12.50 ; Middle Smithfield, 12 ; Port Carbon, 17 ;
Portland, 9; Pottsville, ist, 32.35: Pottsville. 2d, 32.90;
Reading, 1st, 46.20, Sparkling Gems, 30 ; Reading, Olivet,
Aftermath Bd., 15, Olive Br., 10; Reading, Wash'n St,, 9;
Shawnee, 26, Bd., 3.30 ; S. Bethlehem, 15, Primary CI., 2 ; S.
Easton. 7; Stroudsburg. 37. so, Guild, 25; Summit Hill, 3, J.
White Bd., 10, Margaret Ballantine. 2; Upper Lehigh, 14.82
{1,629.58, less 5 previously acknowledged), 1,664.58
Lehigh. — Easton. ist, Loring Bd., 20.00
Lima. — Blanchard, 24: Delphos, 36.18, S.S., 27.36; Find-
lay, 2d, 6.20, Workers, 1.68; Lima, ist, 38, S.S., 15; Mc-
Comb, Children's S.S. Bd., 5; Ottawa, 24.90; Rockford, 10 ;
Wapakoneta, 8.75 ; Van Buren, 3 ; Van Wert, 38.96, 239.03.
Mahoning.— New Lisbon, 77.00
Newark. — Montclair, Trinity, 100.00
New Brunswick. — Col. by Mrs. W. E. Knox, 66.78
Newcastle. — Lewes, S.C.E., 5.00
New Jersey Synodical Soc. — Col., 8o.oo-
Northumberland. — Bald Eagle, 29, Mill Hall Bd., 3 ;
Beech Creek, 2.85 ; Berwick, 27, Kumler Bd., 28.70; Blooms-
burg, 43.25, Neal Bd., 61.25, S.S., 60, S.C.E., 6.50; Briar
Creek, 6.54; Buffalo Cross Roads, 24.80 ; Buffalo, Mifflinburg,
21.40; Danville, Grove, 17.20, Lily Neal Bd., 6.57; Danville,
Mahoning, 45.41, Kate Best Bd., 7.60, Y.L.B., 13 ; Hartleton,,
5; Jersey Shore, 46.90, S.S., 7.77; Lewisburg, 64.18, Snow-
flake Bd., 19.48, S.C.E., 12.50; Linden, 5; Lock Haven,.
102.23, 'Y.L.B., 153.44, S.C.E., 10; Lycoming, 10, Newton
Bd., 10 • Mifflinburg, 1st, 20, Reardon Bd., 15; Milton, 97,
Y.L.B., 70, J. C. Watson Bd., 15.65, S.C.E., 37.61; Mont-
gomery, 6.16; Mooresburg, 8, Willing Workers, 1.05, S.S.,
7.40; Mt. Carmel, Mountain Bd., 8.14; Muncy, 38; New
Berlin, 9; Northumberland, 7, Junior Bd., 15; Orangeville,.
32.13; Renovo, Y L.B ,25: Rohrsburg, 3; Shamokin, 16.30;
Sunbury, 51.10, Excelsior Bd.. 15.10, S.C.E., 12; Warrior
Run, 54; 'Washington, 36.45, Y.L.B., 38.29, Bd.. 5 ; Washing-
tonville and Derry, 60.50 ; Watsontown, 33.50, Willing Work-
ers, 25 ; Williamsport, ist, 111.37, Curtis Hepburn Bd., 60,
Richard Armstrong Bd., 50 ; Williamsport, 2d, 160.22, Y.L.B.,
100, Gleaners, 11.45; Williamsport, 3d (L. L. Bearers, 2.03),
43.36, Y.L.B., 36, Carrier Doves, 5, S.S., 50, S.C.E., 8; A
Friend, Mt. Carmel, 10, 2,458.41
Philadelphia. — Arch St.. 251.40, S.S., 100; Atonement,
Myrtle Bd., 5 ; Bethany, S.C.E. Girls, Jr., 8 ; Bethesda, Anna
M. Eva Bd., 30; Bethlehem, 136.25. A Lady, 17, Y. P. Ass'n,
15; Calvary, Prayer and Pence Bd., 15; Cohocksink, Mes-
sengers of the Cross, 30, Crusaders, 25 ; First, 135 ; Fourth,
41.80; Hollond, 25; Kensington, ist, 65; Ninth, 36.50;
North, 102 ; North Broad St., 199 85, Harper Bd., 35, Y.L.B.,
300, Wadsworth Bd., 61 ; Oxford, 104, S.C.E., Jr., 10; Prince-
ton, 400, First Fruits, 30, Hastings Bd., 20, Helping Hands,
40, Princeton Bd , 30, Y.L.B., 37; Second, 105; South, 75,
Cheerful Givers. 30; Shepherd, 70; Tabernacle, 173.62,
Y.L.B., 40; Tabor, 85. Little Helpers, 27.43; Temple, 75,
Workers, 20.75, Grace Bd., 15, S.C.E., 50; Union Taber-
nacle, Johnstone, 100; Walnut St., 450, Neesima Bd., 6.76,
Y.L.B., 23.60, S.S. ,71.66; West Hope, 51, Y.L.B., 6, Little
Stars. 3, Berean Bd., 16; West Spruce St., A Lady, 150,
S.C.E., 20; Woodland, Woodland Bd., Sr., 12.05, Woodland
Bd., Jr., 1.75, Y.L.B., 65, S.C.E., 7.64 ; J. F. R.. 50, 4,106.06
Shenango. — Beaver Falls, 48.56, S.S., 35.59, S.C.E., 3;
Centre, 20.65; Clarksville, 62.50; Hermon, 12.50; Leesburg,
10 ; Mahoning, 12 ; Mt. Pleasant, 42.50 ; New Brighton, 63.75 ;
New Castle, ist, Mrs. Jessie Hamilton. 25, S.C.E., 10 ; Peters-
burg, 18.48, Bd., 3.70; Rich Hill, 26.27; Sharpsville, 19;
Wampum, 10, S.C.E., 15. 429. so-
South Florida. — Eustis, 25.00-
Southern Virginia. — Allen Mem'l. S.S., 1; Big Oak, i ;
Bethesda, Bd., i ; Christ Ch., 1.35; Burkville, Ingleside Sem.,
Coulter Bd., 7.50; Ebenezer, 2 ; Grace Chapel, 3; Mizpah, i ;
Russell Grove, 2. 19-85
Steubenville. — Smithfield, Gems of the Crown, 3.15
Washington City. — Anacostia, Guiding Star Bd., i ;
Damestown. Earnest Workers, 30.33; Falls Ch.,37; Hyatts-
ville, 40, Y.L.B., 8.75, Mcllvaine Bd., 10, S.C.E., 14. S.C.E.,.
Jr., i; Lewinsville, 12, Bd., 14: Manassas, 5, Bd., 1.31 ;
Vienna, 8 ; Washington, ist, 27.50, Young Woman's Bd., 10 ;
4th Ch., 34.02, S.C.E., Jr.. i; 6th, 41, Cheerful Givers, 10;
Assembly, 55.64; Covenant, 232.27, Y.L.B., 50, King's
Daughters, 10. S.C.E., Jr. , i. Peck Chapel, 65 : Eastern, 25 ;
Gunton Temple, 20 ; Gurley Mem'l, 35, M. Campbell Bd., 15 ;
Metropolitan, 50, Mateer Bd., 35 ; New York Ave., 425,
Bethany Bd., 15, S.S., 25, S.C.E., Jr., 15, Faith Chapel, 25,
S.C.E., Jr., 2.25; North. 10; Western, 22.20; West St., 33,
The Pastor, in mem., 12. Willing Workers, 12, Miss Durham's
CI.. 7, S. C. E., 10 ; Westm'r, 36.25, S.C.E., 10, 1,529.52
Wellsboro'. — Amot, 4.15; Beecher's Island, 4.15, Ka-
trina Bd., 2; Coudersport, 4.36, S.S., 3.84: Elkland, 14.75;
Osceola, 12.80 ; Wellsboro', 28.32, 74-37
Miscellaneous. — Honesdale. Pa., A Friend, 15 ; Man-
chester, Vt., med. fund, refunded, 2.75 ; Plainfield, N. J.. Mrs.
E. M. Shotwell, 5 ; Sidon. Syria, Ruth and Dora Eddy. 2 ;
Wyalusing. Pa.. Miss V. 'Wells and friends, " to help bridge
the deficit," 5; Wyoming, O., Mrs. H. A. McLeod, 9.50 ; In-
terest on investment, 90, 401.50
Total for March, 1894. $22,542.64
Total since May 1, 1893, $80,059.56
Mrs. Julia M. Fishburn, Treas.,
April 2, 1894. 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Receipts of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest to
March 20, 1894.
Alton. — Alton, 1.80, S.S., 20; Belleville, 7, C.E.,9; Car- Greenfield, 12; Greenville, 15, Jr. C.E., 8; Hillsboro. 21;
linville, 7.46 ; CarroUton, 73.55, Bd., 5.15 ; E. St. Louis, 16.30 ; Jerseyville, 5.40; Lebanon, 10; Litchfield, C.E., 9; Ray-^
I40
TREASURERS ' REP OR TS.
[May,
17, Boys' Brigade, 3.95, Mite Gatherers, 7.80; Huron, 30.3^
Jr. C.E., 5. C.E., 10 : Madison, 11.16; Miller, C.E., 7.22:
mond, 10.58; Reno, Bethel Ch., 12.50; Sparta, 46.50, Bd.,
2.34; 1st, S.S.. 25, C.E., 4; Trenton, 17.50; Virden, 37;
Daum, Walnut Grove Ch., 20. S.S., 5 (less Pres. ex., if)<
$389.08
Bloomington. — Bement, 22.60, Bd., 4.42 ; Bloomington,
ist, 23.60; 2nd, Y.P.S., 15.78, Stevenson Bd., 14.22, C.E., 5,
Chinese S.S., 11.85 ; Champaign, 70.92, Jr. C.E.. 5 : Avery
Bd., 20, Y.P.S., 7.S0 ; Chenoa, 30.52, Y.L.S., 17.57; Clinton,
128.70, Willing Workers, 10, C.E., 10, Y.W.S., 17.04; Clar-
ence, 11.50, Acorn Bd., 1.79 ; CooksviUe, 7.50 ; Danville, 98.91,
Jr. C.E., 5.60; El Paso, 6. 84 ; Gilman, 17 ; Heyworth, 34.50;
Hoopeston, 13. 17 ; Lexington, 48.70, S.S., 15, Jr. C.E., 7.50,
C.E,, 11.42 : Minonk, 13.40, Bd., 15.15, C.E.. 15.37, J^- C.E.,
13.22 ; Monticello, 13 ; Normal, 15, Cheerful Givers, 3, Y.L S.,
5.55; Onarga, 91.43, C.E. , 9.44; Philo, 13.30, C.E , 5 ; Piper
City, 116.48, Sr. Neely Bd., 10.54, Jr. Neely Bd., 13 56 ; Pon-
tiac, 15; Rankin, 5.09, Boys' Brigade, 4.10; Ridgeville. Mrs.
A. L. Gould, 30 ; Rossville, 1 ; Selma, 10.94 ; Tolono, 12.60,
Curtie's Mem'l, 14 ; Towanda, 17.50 ; Urbana, 13.40; Watseka,
22.30 ; Wenona, 13.50, 1.207.22
Cairo. — Bridgeport, 2.40 ; Carbondale, 31.90 ; Centralia,
25.52, Y.L.S., 2.70; Cobden, 10.23; DuQuoin, 38.88; Fair-
field, 12.40; Flora, 1.38; Golconda, 14.52, C E., 2.50; Mur-
physboro, 17.70; Odin, 12.60; Shawneetown, 10.35; Tama-
roa, Pr. off., 18, C.E., 10, S.S.,3; Pasturefield, Union Ch.,
5.49 ; Richland, Wabash Ch., 5, Always Ready Bd., 3.;0,
228.07
Cedar Rapids. — Cedar Rapids, 1st, 185.68; 3rd, 10; Clin-
ton, 243; Garrison, 30 ; Lyons, 2 ; Mechanicsville, 20 ; Monti-
. cello, 11.57; Scotch Grove, 5, ."^07. 25
Central Dakota. — Artesian, 3.70 ; Beulah, 2; Flandreau.
Pierre, 10; Volga, 7.88, 116.10
Chicago. — Austin, 36; Arlington Heights, 17.80, S.S., 25.13 ;
Chicago, 1st, 271.15, Pr. off., 483 ; 2nd, 485.20, Pr. off., 214.25,
C.E., 19 Jr. C.E., 25; 3rd, Y.P. Library Ass'n, 100; 4th,
69.20, Y.W.S., 40 ; 5th, 34.22, Th. off., 16.82. C.E., 3.07 ; 6th,
106.12, C.E. , 15 ; 8th, 36; 41st St. Ch., 66.50, C.E., 4 ; Ch. of
the Covenant, Pr. off., 129.33; 9th, C.E., 10; loth, 20, Mr.
and Mrs. David Ayers, 20; Emerald Av. Ch., 25.44; Camp-
bell Pk. Ch., 33.96; Central Pk. Ch., Pr. off., 16.10; Fullerton
Av. Ch..iis ; Lake View Ch., 80.81 ; LaGrange. 7.25 ; Hins-
dale, Mrs. E. C. Linsley, 2 ; Kankakee, 39.40, Jr. C.E., 29;
Englewood, ist, Jr. C.E. ,3. C.E. , 51.45; 60th St Ch.,8.93;
Evanston, 42, S.S., 20, Chapel, 22; Hyde Park, 85.81, Pr.
■oS., 138.91, Y.P.S., 25.95. C.E ,38.63: Joliet. ist, 24 14; Lake
Forest, 30, Pr. off., 121. 13, Y.P S., 230, Steady Streams, 72.32,
C E , Pr. off., 12 05 ; Manteno, 35.40, C.E , 25 ; Normal Pk.,
15.50 ; Coal City, New Hope Ch., 37.15 ; Oak Park, 20; Peotone,
11 ; River Forest, 26 ; Waukegan, 78.42 ; Wilmington, 8 50 ;
.Wheeling, 23 ; Legacy of Mrs. J. A. Greene, 26.13, 3,828.17
Council Bluffs. — Armour, 1.8=; ; Audubon, 12.05 ; Avoca,
.5.10 ; Casey, 4 ; Clarinda, 10 ; Council Bluffs, 15.45 ; Gris-
wold, 22 30 ; Guthrie Centre, 15.15; Greenfield, 4.20; Logan,
60 cts. ; Menlo, 24.55 ; Missouri Valley, 44.70 ; Shelby, 9.25,
169 20
Denver. — Brighton, 2.50 ; Denver, Central Ch., Judson S .
10; Capitol Av. Ch., 20.07; ist Av. Ch , V L. Bd., 9; 23rd
Av. Ch., 78.50; North Denver, 23.93; Georgetown, 2.05;
Littleton, 21.25, Bd., 2.23; Idaho, 1.25; Otis, 1.25; S. Den-
ver, 3.10, Bal. fr. Contingent Fund, 1.50, 176.63
Detroit. — Ann Arbor, 121.65, S.S., 15.52; Birmingham,
7.50, S.S., 3 ; Brighton, 6 ; Detroit, ist, 375, Richardson Bd.,
100; Bethany Ch., 14; 2nd Av. Ch., 17 64; Fort St. Ch ,
Rhea Band, 123, S S., 160, Opportunity C, 60 ; Jeff"erson Av.
Ch., 75 ; Trumbull Av Ch., 26 13 : Holly, 3 ; Howell, 18, Bd.,
2.43 ; Milford. 150.42, Y.L.S., 25 ; Mt. Clemens, 4.50, North-
ville, 22.05 ! Pontiac, 73.18, Y.L.S., 22.66, S D C, 30, Oppor-
tunity C, 5; S. Lyon, 57 77; Ypsilanti, Y.P.M., 25.23, C.E. ,
34.77, Little Gleaners, 30 ; Wyandotte, 10, 1,618.45
Dubuque. — Dubuque, 2nd, 57 25, C.E., 3.01 ; Coggon. 7.50,
Busy Bee Bd., 3, S.S., i ; French Creek, Mt. Hope Ch., 5 ;
Hazleton, 2.91 ; Hopkinton, 20.55, off., 20, Y.P.M., 7.70,
Sr. Bd., I, Jr. Bd., 165; Independence, 60.18; Lansing,
2256; Lime Springs, 5; Manchester, 2.91; Oelwein, 2.91;
Winthrop, Pine Creek Ch., 8.75 ; W. Union, Bethel Ch., 4.63,
Willing Workers, 3.02, 240.53
DulutH- — Duluth, ist, 65.27 ; 2nd, 21.40 ; Hinckley, 3 , W.
Duluth, Westminster Ch., 8.39; Lakeside, C.E., 4, S.S. Inf.
C. Birthday B., 2.50; Barnum, Y.L.S., 2; Two Harbors,
10.03 ; Willow River, S.S. , 2.25, Jamieson Bd., 11, 129.84
Fargo. — Lucca, 7.67
Ft. Dodge. — Boone, 7.18, C.E., 10.53; Dana, 4.42; Ft.
Dodge, 95 ; Grand Junction, 9.78; Jefferson, 9.85, S.S.M.B.,
i2.<;o; Lohrville, 1.41 ; Rockwell City, 5.25, 155-92
Freeport. — Belvidere, 9 ; Dakota, Rock Run Ch., 14 ;
Elizabeth, 5 ; Freeport, ist, 105 40, Seed Sowers, 8.75 ; 2nd,
35 ; Galena, ist, 21, Circle, 8, South Ch., 37 25 ; Guilford, S S.,
Gleaners, 13.25 ; Harvard, 7 ; Linn and Hebron, 17 50; Rock-
ford, Westm'r Ch., 40.15, Earnest Workers, 5.36, Y.P., 7.28;
Willow Creek Ch., 10.50 ; Winnebago, 34 55, Bd., 6.25 ;
Woodstock, 13, 398 24
Grand Rapids. — Big Rapids, 753; Evart, 9, C.E., 3;
Grand Rapids, ist, 14.25, Boys' M.U.,4 29, Laborers of Love,
14, Mission Wood, 7.27; Westminster Ch., 79.77, V.W S.,
1.77 ; Grand Haven, 57 95 ; Hesperia, 19, C E , i ; Ionia, 8.55,
King's Ch,, 1.85 ; Ludington, 16 95. Bd., 7; Muir. 3.75. 256.93
Hastings — Hansen, C E , 15 30 ; Holdrege, 4 20; Minden,
25; Nelson, 3.50, 4800
Indianapolis. — Bloomington, 31 70, S.S., 10.50, C.E., i 73,
Jr. C E., 53 cts.; Columbus, 2164; Edinburg, 3; Franklin,
66.70, Bd., 25; Greencastle. 15, Mrs. T. C. Hammond, 10;
Greenwood, 26.35 Hopewell, 39 91 ; Indianapolis, ist, 208.63,
S.S., 110.99; 2nd, 125, King's Daughters, 5, Y.W.S , 7266;
4th, 53 62, Pickett Soc, 50; 6th, 15 ; 7th, 35, Anabetta Wish-
ard Y.L.S., 42 ; Tabernacle Ch.. 251.73, Mary Fulton Soc,
27.40, Coral Builders. 18 ; E. Washington St. Ch., 17 ; South-
port, 25 ; Whitehead, 17.20, 1.326.29
Iowa. — Bloomfield, 572, C.E., 3.59; Burlington, 40. C.E,
10: Fairfield, 87 83, The Gleaners, 25; Ft. Madison, S.S.,
12.50; Keokuk, 25, Light Bearers, 3.90; Lebanon, 17; Mid-
dletown, 5 ; Morning Sun, 7.50, C.E., 10; Mt. Pleasant, 61 ;
Ottumwa, 25 ; Troy, 15 ; W. Point, 10, 36404
La Crosse — La Crosse, C. E., 20.00
Lake Superior. — Ishpeming, 2.38 ; Menominee, 20, 22.38
Madison — Beloit, 20; Janesville, 30, Y.L.S., 44.80; Kil-
boum, 23, C.E., 15.40; Lima, 15.75; Lodi, 14.62; Madison,
C.E. Mission League, 25 ; Poynette, 16, 204 57
Mankato. — Blue Earth, 15, In. Mem., 5 ; Le Sueur, 18 ;
La Verne, 436. S.S., 3.19; Mankato, 39.90; Marshall, 7.69,
Bd., 1 44; Worthington, 14, Jr. C.E., 3.64, 112.22
Mattoon. — Areola, Bethel Ch., 10; Ashmore, 20; As-
sumption, 45 cts., C.E , 14.24 ; Charleston, 17.08 ; Edgar, 4.35 ;
Morrisonville, 3.70, C.E., 5; Moweaqua, 5; Neoga, 10.45;
Pana, 43 35, Pr. off., 15.81 ; Robinson, 13.35 ; Tower Hill, 10 ;
Vandalia, 33.40, 206.18
Milwaukee. — Beaver Dam, 1st, 4.22; Assembly Ch., 6.50,
C.E., 4.80; Cambridge and Oakland, 6; Horicon, 1040;
Juneau. 14 ; Manitowoc, 15.45 ; Milwaukee, Calvary Ch.,
449.54. Willing Workers, 5 ; Immanuel Ch , 90, C.E., 12, S.S ,
47 61, Missionary Workers, 50, Y.L.S , 55.50 ; Grace Ch., 33 ;
Westminster Ch., 5.50, C.E., 16.90; Ottawa, 5.50, Mrs. E. 'T.
Stewart, Th. off., 1.50; Racine, 61.14, Cheerful Givers Bd..
9.74, S.S., 11.66; Waukesha, 15.10, Bd., 6.50, 937-56
Minneapolis. — Buffalo Ch., 3.25 ; Minneapolis, Highland
Pk. Ch., 77.29, Primary CI.. 2.50; Elim Ch., 3 ; Franklin Av.
Ch., 14.73, C.E., 2.05, Jr. C.E., 75 cts. ; Bethlehem Ch., 23.48 ;
5th, 14.72, C.E., 14.68 ; Westminster Ch., 497.34, Chinese Ci..
3,, Gleaners, 26; ist, 74.50, The Echoes, 10, Y.W.S., 20;
Stewart Mem'l Ch., 62.39, C.E., 3.30; Oliver Ch., 6.75; An-
drew Ch., Daughters of the King, 50, Rope Holders, 10.75,
952.48
, I ; Hel.
Montana. — Butte, 50; Deer Lodge, 10, Y.L. B., i ; Helena,
7.85, 68.85
Muncie. — Marion, 20 ; Muncie, 48.50, S.S.,9; Noblesville,
10; Peru, 22.11; Portland, 5; Tipton, 15.60; Union City, 3 ;
Wabash, 25, C.E., 2, 160.21
Niobrara. — Oakdale, Mrs. Stratton, 2.50 ; Pender, C.E., 5 ;
Ponca, 14.55, C.E., 5; Wakefield, 3.78, 30.83
Ottawa. — Aux Sable, 20.20; Aurora, 14.75; Mendota,
45.02 ; Morris, C.E., 14 ; Paw Paw, S.S., 50 ; Rochelle. 78.25 ;
Sandwich, 61.40, Jr. C.E., 2.84; Waltham, 20, 306.46
Peoria. — Altona, 12.50; Trivoli, Brunswick Ch., i, S.S.,
45 cts. ; Canton, 46.01, Little Owls, 7.34; Deer Creek, 9.30;
Delavan, 46.25 ; Edwards Station, Miss S. A. Howarth, 30 ;
Elmira, 75.75. C.E., 6.25, Temple Builders, 11.56: Elmwood.
12.80; Eureka, 25.68, S.S., 8.53; Farmington, 19.10, Addie
Ramsay Bd., 5.45, C.E., 5, Y.L.S., 11.80 ; Galesburg, 19 45,
C.E., II ; Green Valley, 29.50, C.E., 2 ; Ipava, 17.50, Glean-
ers, 15; Knoxville, 38.40, C.E., 16.35, Whatsoever Bd., 30;
Lewislown, 30.99. S.S., 15: Oneida, 21.50, C.E. , 7; Peoria,
ist, 106.45, Y.L.S.. 20, C.E., 5. E. R. Edwards Bd., 18.40.
Little Lights, 6.40 ; 2nd, 126.50, Mrs. Eliz. Griswold, 100, C.E.,
7.58, S.S. , 5; Calvary Ch., 26.75; Grace Ch., 41.50; Prince-
ville C.E., 25 ; Dunlap, Prospect Ch., 36.65; Vermont, 5.50;
Washington, 36.25 ; Yates City, 4.60, C.E., 3.29 ; Anon, 9 cts.,
I. 163. 42
Pueblo. — Bessemer, Westm'r Ch., 2.25 ; Colorado Springs,
2nd, 9: La Veta, 1.13, S.S., 2; Monument, Mr. Will Lierd,
48 ; Pueblo, ist, 15.30, Fountain Ch., 9.35 ; Mesa Ch., 57.46,
Busy Bee Bd., 6.90, iS'-39
Saginaw. — Bay City, 7.60, C.E., 21.17, Jr. f.E., 1.26, 30.03
St. Cloud. — St. Cloud, 19.50, C.E., 2.50 ; Willmar, 15,
37.00
St. Paul. — Hamline, Knox Ch., 6.77; Hastings, 8; Mac-
alester. Golden Rule Bd., 2 ; Red Wing, 52.95 : St. Paul Park,
King's Daughters, 2.50; St. Paul, ist, 10; Bethlehem Ch.,
20 ; Central ch., Y.W.S., 126.20, Boys' Brigade, 10, Little
Flock, 13.80; Dayton Av. Ch., 40, C.E., 25; East Ch., 7;
Goodrich -Av., 21.24 ; Merriam Pk., 14.12, Wayside Gleaners,
14.10; House of Hope Ch., 114.85; Stillwater, 25, Allbright
Bd., 22.20 ; White Bear, 9.30, =45 03
Schuyler. — Brooklyn, 3; Bushnell, 25; Camp Creek Ch.,
12 ; Carthage, Anon., 50 cts. ; Chili. 2 : Clayton. ^ ; Ebe-
nezer Ch., 7; Elvaston, 21-10; Kirkwood, 19.^0; Macomb,
27.90; Monmouth, 124. <;o, Y.L.S., 26; Mt. Sterling, Bd.,
21.01 ; Perry, 45.64, S.S., 4.36 ; Rushville, 15 ; Wythe Ch.,
10.86, 375-37
Sioux City. — Cherokee, ^9. 58, Cheerful Workers, 7.07 ; Ida
Grove, C.E.. 10; Jackson Tp. Ch., 5 ; Larrabee. 50 cts. ; Le
Mars, 35; Leeds, King's Daughters, 2.50; Mt. Pleasant
i894 ]
TREASURERS' REPORTS.
141
Ch., 5; Odebolt. 12.75: Sac City, 10, Cheerful Givers, 2.80,
Busy Bees Jr. C.E., 1.50, C.E., 10 ; Sanborn, 11 ; Schaller, 5 ;
Sioux City, ist, C.E., 60; 2nd, 15. 36," C.E., 5, S.S., 5.47:
Storm Lake, 8.06; Vail, Boys' Brigade, 5, 276.59
Springfield.— Bates. 56.20; Chatham, 20; Decatur, 7.;
Beacon Lights, 2, Brier Bd., 5 : Divemon, 26.65, Willing
Workers, 3.50; Farmingdale, 85: Greenview, 10.50, Little
Light Bearers, 55 cts. : Jacksonville, Presbyterian Ch., 9 .40 ;
State St. Ch., 53.35, Coral Workers, 10, Y.L.S., 8.44, S.S.. •/7 :
Westm'r Ch., 175.40, Y.L.S., 25, S.S., 25 : Portuguese Ch.,
Y.L.S., 7.60; Lincoln, 25.60, ■• Do-your-best " Bd., io.=o;
Macon, Maroa, 17.70, S.S., io.i;o; Mason City, 12.60; N.
Sangamon Ch., =7.91; Petersburgh, 9.4., C.E., 3;; Pisgah,
10. ;o; Pleasant Plains, 10; Springfield, ist, 81.50, Mrs. B. H.
Brainerd, 11.37, Y.L.S., 102.46, Busy Bees, 36.37: 2nd, 85.90,
Far and NearBd., 6octs., Y.P.S., 25, Mem'l Bd., io,S.S. Rays
of Light, 14.^3 : 3rd, 12.24, Brainerd Chapel, 10.55 ; Unity
Ch., 14.25 ; Virginia, 24.50, 2,385.62
Utah. — Miss Lucy Perley, i ; Mt. Pleasant, 5.65, 6.65
ViNCENNES. — Brazil, 15: Claiborne, 12: Carlisle, 5.20;
Evansville, ist Av. Ch., 1.3;, C.E., 85 cts. ; Grace Ch., 26.15 ;
Walnut St. Ch., The Messengers, 30: Mt. Vernon Ch., 13.60 ;
Oakland City, 4.75; Petersburg, 16, S.S.. 2, Jr. C.E., 2:
Princeton, Steady Streams, 7.50: Spencer, 5; Sullivan, 10, A
Friend, 5; Terre Haute. Central Ch., 2;: Moffat St. Ch.,
12.50 ; Vincennes, 41.10, Willing Workers, 2.50 ; Upper Indiana
Ch., 18.42: Indiana Ch., Solid Workrs, 7: Washington, 6,
Willing Workers, 10, C.E., 5, 288.92
Waterloo. — ClarksviUe, 5 : Greene, 8.40 ; Grundy Centrer
5: C.E., 2.80; Morrison, 3.88; State Centre, S.S., 5 : Water-
loo, 31.43. 61-51
Winona. — Albert Lea, 25.82 ; Austin, 2.90, S.S., 2.20 ; Chat-
field, 11.50, C.E., 25; I laremont, 10; Kasson, 8; Owatonna,
15.50; Preston, 6, S.S., 3.90; Rochester, 29.10, C.E., 30;
Winona, 6, 175.92
Whitewater. — Brookville, 3.75; College Comer, 3 ; Forest
Hill, 2.49 : Greensburg, 147.76, S.S., 56.77, Mission S.S., 9.14 ;
Harmony, 10 ; Kingston, 69.90, C.E., 11.25 '• Knightstown, 14 ;
Lawrenceburg, 6.90 ; Liberty, 4.39 ; Mt. Carmel, 5.50 ; Rich-
mond, 58.80: Rising Sun, 6.65; Rushville, 21.50; Shelbyville,
73- 505.38
Miscellaneous. — Putnam, 111., Mrs. Susan Vail, 5; Paris,
O., Miss Sophy M. Swallen, 5 ; Indianapolis, Mr. Wm. S.
Hubbard, 50; Memorial Ch., Jr. Partners, 15 ; Vincennes, 15,
Willing Workers, 10; Willmar, Minn., Florence R. Porter,
5.05; Paris, 111., 27: Miscel., 26; Minneapolis, ist. Merry
Gleaners, 25, 183.05
Total for month, $20,375.25
Total receipts since April 20, 1893, 58,307.29
Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Ireas..
Room 48 McCorraick Block.
Chicago. March 20, 1894.
The W.M.S. of Liberty, Ind., has sent to Japan, S.S.
charts valued at S3. 50, including expressage.
Receipts of the Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for
March, 1894.
BiNGHAMTON. — Afton, 15.78: Bainbridge, special, 13.64;
Binghamton, 1st, 142. -o, Bd., 5, Willing Workers, special, 10 ;
Emmanuel Chapel, Jr. ( .E., 1.70; Floral Ave., 2, King's
Daughters, 10 : North, 67, Y.L S., 25, Busy Bees, 2 ; West,
10, Coral Workers, 2 ; Conklin, 15, King's Helpers, 13 ; Cort-
land, 53.65, Y.L S., 10, Busy Workers, 10 : Coventry, 21 : De-
posit, 10, Jr. C.E., 4. = 3 ; McGrawville, 23, C.E., 6; Nineveh,
13: Owego, 25: Smithville Flats, 27; Union, 17; Whitney's
Point, 15; Windsor, 28.59. =88.30
Boston, Mass.— Boston, Columbus Ave., 18.67, Y.L.S.,
23.07 : East Boston, P. off., 13 : South Boston, 15, Y.L.S., 5 :
Roxbury, 35.33: Scotch, ;o ; Houlton, Me., 7, Bd., 10:
Litchfield, N H., 5 : Lonsdale, R.I., 5 ; Lowell, 12.50 ; Man-
chester. N. H., 5 : Newburyport, ist, 45.05, S.S. Primary,
1.83 ; Portland, Me., 15 : Providence, R. I., 30 ; Quincy,
TO. 49, P, off., 8.25, Infant CI., 4.96 ; South Ryegate, Vt., 10;
Woonsocket, R. I., 1.87, 302.02
Brooklyn. — Brooklyn, Ainslie St., 8.75; Arlington Ave.,
Little Workers, 2 : Bethany, 21.99 ■ Central, to, Bd., 50, Little
Workers, 5, Jr. C.E., 50 ; City Park Chapel, 4.49, Cheerful
W^orkers, 11.50, C.E., i. 7-, Woman's Meeting, 2.8 ; Classon
Ave., 163.56, Mrs. G. H. Pilsbury, lOo, Mrs. J. E. Hasbrouck,
125, Bd., 20, S S., 100 : Duryea, 57.21, Miss M. C. Love, 100,
Bd., 7.44, S.S., 50: ist, i68.2t, Mrs. G. H. Southard, too, Mrs.
Edward Packard, 100, Y.L S., T15, S.S., ^5: Franklin Ave.,
IT. 05: Grace, 29.53: Greene Ave., 24.35, Ministering Cir.,
5.29, Peace Cir., 2.92; Lafayette Ave., 313.62, Cuyler Bd., 50;
Memorial, 96.83, memorial gift, 50, Y.L.S., 45, Girls' Bd., 6.50;
Mount Olivet, 6.42: Noble St., 85.58; Prospect Heights, 12.95,
Mizpeh Cir., 11, S.S., 25; Ross St., 50.55, Temple Builders,
5.83, S.S. , 14.58, C.E., 26.25: 2d, 66.18, Y.L. S., 60, Cheerful
Workers, 15, S.S., 50: South Chapel, 25: South 3rd St., 82.73,
Bd., 58.33, S.S., 37.62; Throop Ave., 165.87, Y.L.S., 29.17,
Helping Hand Cir., 23.87, Jr. C.E., 40: Trinity, 5.50; Westm'r,
75.73, Y.L. Guild, 30, Jr. C.E., 5: Stapleton, S.I., ist, 40.83,
C.E., 8.92: West New Brighton, S. I., Calvary, 45, Wide
Awake Boys' Bd., 2.50, S.S., 6: Woodhaven, L. I., 14.68,
3,100.89
Buffalo — Buffalo, Bethany, Bethsaida Bd., 5.56, Lazarus
Club, 2.15, Mary and Martha Bd., 9.74: Bethlehem, 7.20,
Y.L.S., 5, Gleaners' Bd., 5; Calvary, 51.16, Bd., 18; Central,
135, King's Daughters, 15: Ch. of the Covenant, 5, Hopeful
Band, 3, S.S., 9: Ch. of the Redeemer, 5.25, C.E., 10: East,
26, Children's Soc's and Infant CI., 11.02: ist, 446.50, Volun-
teers, 10, S.S., 40; Lafayette St., 57.75, Heacock Bd., 55 :
North, 232, Y.L.S , 30, Y.P.S., 30; Walden Ave., 4.49: West
Ave., 35: Westm'r, 75, Jr. Willing Workers, 731: Clarence,
16; Canewango, Miss Fuller, 3; Dunkirk, 40; East Aurora,
49.59: Franklinville, 10, Prince's Daughters, 3: Fredonia, 60;
Gowanda, 6, Bd., 4; Jamestown, 50: Olean, 41; Portville, 55:
Sherman, 58, Y.P.S., 15: Silver Creek, 15.16, C.E., 3.60,
Springvilie, 5: Westfield, ro, 1,785.48
Cayuga. — Auburn, Calvary, 10, Y.P.S., 13: Central, 155.28,
King's Daughters, 25: ist, Y.P.S., 60, Christ's Bd, 45: 2d, 15,
Girls' Soc, i8, S.S., 50: Aurora, 16, Sunbeams and others, 5:
Cayuga, 8: Fair Haven, 5: Five Comers, 12.73: Ithaca, 28.7 ,
The Little Owls, 3: King's Ferry, 19: Meridian, 29.25: Owas-
co, 9: Port Byron, 17.50: Scipioville, 6; Union Springs, 10:
Weedsport, 56. i^, s86.g6
Chemung. — Big Flats, 12.50: Burdett, 10.-2, Earnest Work-
ers, 14.78: Dundee, 4, Mrs, Ayers, 20: Elmira, ist, 35.50:
Franklin St , 10: Lake St., 82.27: North, Primary Dep't, 2:
Havana, 21.50; Hector, 8; Horseheads, lo, Pleiades Bd., 40:
Mecklenburg, 15: Monterey, 7.75: Moreland, 11: Rock Stream,
13: Southport, 12: Spencer, 10; Sugar Hill, 5: Watkins, 45.10,
389.62
Ebenezer. Ky. — Ashland, The Helpers Bd.,25; Covington,
103.74, Y.L S , 21, King's Stars, in mem. Stella May Ernst,
10; Dayton, 5: Flemingsburg, 31.49, Mary Lyie Bd , 5: Frank-
fort, 25: Lexington, 2d, 50, Light Bearers, 17.50: Ludlow,
2.25: Mt. Sterling, 6.73, Florence Wishard Bd., 1.50; New-
port, 23 : Paris, 23, Golden Rule Bd., 7; Williamstown, 5.20,
362.41
Genesee. — Attica, 9.95, S.S. Miss. Soc, 3.72, C.E., 5; Bata-
via, 121 .28, P. off., 72.80, Acom Bd., 12.64, S.S. Miss. Soc, 26.64,
S.S., 40; Bergen, 24.35, Busy Bees, 13.68: Byron, 37: Castile,
13.35: Corfu, 17: East Pembroke, 12, Light Hearers, lo; Elba,
30; Le Roy, 145, Willing Workers, 5: North Bergen, 43.40;
Oakfield, 8: Perry, C.E., 20: Stone Church, 36, May Blos-
soms, 18; Tonawanda Valley, 10; Warsaw, 52.33, Y.W.S., 30:
Wyoming, 22.10, 839.24
Geneva. — Bellona, Lend a Hand Soc, 13; Canandaigua, 16;
Geneva, ist, Y.L.S., 40; North, Y.L.S., 10: Gorham, 41 30,
Willing Workers, 25: Naples, Ever Ready I'd., 8, S.S., 17.16;
Oaks Comers, 15, Happy Helpers, 5: Ovid, Mary Wilson Soc,
30, " The Brothers," 2; Phelps, Loving Hearts Cir., 10: Romu-
lus, 32: Seneca, 53.08; Seneca Castle, 25.26, Cheerful Givers,
4; Seneca Falls, 22: Trumansburg, 5: Waterloo, 25, 398.80
Hudson. — Amity, 10: Chester, 46, C.E., 2.50; Cochecton,
12.75, W'illing Workers, 14, S.S., 3: Florida, Y.L.S., 25;
Goshen, 44.11, V.L.S., 18: Haverstraw, w, S.S., 25: Hope-
well Ch., 25, Willing Hands, 5.46: Middletown, ist, 112.34,
S.S., 50; 2d, 50, Girls' Bd., 20, Boys' Bd., 12.50: Milford, Pa.,
13.92; Monroe, 4, S.S., 7; Monticello, 8; Mount Hope, 9.30,
C.E., T.56: Nyack, 12.77: Otisville, 8.28; Port Jervis, 9.60,
Rays of Light, i, S.S., 20; Ramapo, 24.60, Hillburn, S.S.,
50.11; Ridgebury, 13: Roscoe, 5: Unionville, 10; Washing-
tonville, 25: West Town, 50.47, 798.37
Long Island. — Amagansett, 5.63, King's Daughters, 5 ;
Bellport, 10: Bridgehampton, 37, Y.L.S., 5, Little Givers, ro;
Cutchogue, 15, Hd., 25; East Hampton, 483; Franklinville,
13.96; Greenport, 48.25: Manor, 4.50: Middle Island, 12.88,
Longwood Bd., 12: Moriches, 10, Self-denial, 5; Selden, 1.75;
Setauket, 17.21, Busy Bees, 2.50, Bd., i; Southampton, 56.84,
Y.P.S., 8.50; Southold, 25: Westhampton, 41.92, P. off., 31.81,
Wide Awake Bd.. 2.50; Yaphank, Mrs. Robert Hawkins, 5,
Miss Amelia Smith, 11, C.E., i, 430.08
Louisville, Kv. — Hodgensville, 2; Hopkinsville, 22.65;
Kuttawa, 24.50, Little Workers, 2.50; Louisville, Calvary, 7.50;
Central, 60; College St., 92.65, Bd., 25; Covenant, 57.05: \Var-
ren Memorial, 50, S.S., 50: Owensboro, 21.38: Pewee Valley,
23: Princeton, 9 50: SJielbyville, 25, Bd., 8.50, 481.23
Lyons. — Clyde, 50: East Palmyra, 19.70, Bd., 6.50; Junius,
5: Lyons, 60 cts.; Newark, 23.58, Y.P. Guild, 25, Cameron
Bd., 45.36: Palm>Ta, 2.50; Sodus, 5: Wolcott, 30, 213.24
Morris and Orange, N.J. — Morristown, 1st, 400: South
St., 150; Miss Agnes L. Carter, 10; Parsippany, 30, special, 2,
592.00
Nassau. — Astoria, 10.20; Babylon, 3; FarRockaway, 13.50,
Bd., 8; Glen Cove, 25: Huntington, ist, 59, Y.L.S., 5, Willing
Workers, 49, C.E., 2.92: 2d, 4; Islip, 25.50, Lillie Webster Bd.,
10; Jamaica, 30, C.E., 30: Newtown. 5.84; Northport, 5;
Oyster Bay, 16.09, S.S., 15: Roslyn, 19.32; Springland, 4.50,
340-87
New York. — Brick Ch., 100. Calvary, Pastor's Aid Soc, co.
Earnest Workers, 10, S.S,, 5; Central, 81.90, Y.L.S. , 7.30, Jr.
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TREASURERS' REPORTS.
[May.
C.E., special, 18; Christ Ch., Pastor's Aid Soc, 25; Ch. of the
Covenant, 450, Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 500, Mrs. J. R, Skidmore,
300: Covenant Chapel, 10: Ch. of the Puritans, Puritan Guild,
100: Fifth Ave., 672, Y.L. Branch, 455; First, 106.17; First
Union, Th, off., 12; Fourth, C.E., 17.96; Fourth Ave., 175,
Bd., 12 ; Harlem, 100 ; Madison Ave., 204: Madison Sq.,
1,127.25, Y.L. Cir., 143; Olivet S.S. Miss. Ass'n, 40; Phillips,
335, S.S., 50, 8oth St. Mission, 15; Scotch, 250; Spring St., 25:
University Place, 200, Bethlehem Chapel S.S., 50, Emmanuel
Chapel, 35; Washington Heights, 65; West End, 20 ; Westm'r,
Y.L.S., 25; A Lady of ist Ch., Th. off., 25 ; Estate of James
R. Hills, in mem. by Miss Sarah B. Hills, 250, Mrs. D. Willis
James, 250, Miss H. B. Judd, 16, Mrs. Jos. R. Mann, 10,
5,342.58
Niagara. — Albion, 71.75, Hoskins Bd , special, 25 ; Barre,
! 1.50, Golden Thoughts, i ; HoUey, 22.71 ; Knowlsville, 5 ;
Lockport, Calvary, 10, Willing Workers, 4 ; 1st, 38, King's
Guards, 79 cts. : 2d, 9, Cheerful Givers, 2; Lyndonville, 25;
Medina, 14, Golden Links, 5; Niagara Falls, Norton Bd , 8;
North Tonawanda, 26.26; Somerset, 15.61; Wilson, 6.84,
291.46
North River. — Amenia, 5 ; Cold Spring, 5. Willing Work-
ers, 8; Cornwall, Canterbury, tg Marlborough, 31,8.8.,
4.50; Matteawan, 44, King's Builders. 2.50; Milton, 5; New-
burgh, Calvary, 34, Earnest Workers, 20 ; New Hamburgh,
18.88, Fanny Wight Bd., 19.93, Ellersdie Volunteers, 5 ; Pine
Plains, 17; Pleasant Plains, 14: Pleasant Valley, 26; Pough-
keepsie, 15.52, special, 30; Rondout, 28; Salisbury Mills,
Hope Chapel I3d., '5.80; Salt Point, 7, 41513
Otsego. — Buel, 3.75; Cherry Valley, 10; Delhi, ist, 46.26;
2d, 36.85; Gilbertsville, 18.71; Hobart, 10; Margaretville, 7;
New Berlin, 10; Oneonta, 8.75; Otego, 3; Richfield Springs,
38.35; Stamford, 32.37; Unadilla, 12.88; Worcester, 10,
247.92
Rochester. — Avon, Central, Y.L.S., 5: ist, 13; Brigh-
ton, 35; Brockport, 135.30; Caledonia, 40, Y.P.S. and Cheer-
ful Workers, 50; Fowlerville, 15.50; Gates, 9, C.E., 10;
Geneseo, Mrs. Kittredge, 5; Geneseo Village, 12.50, Y.L. 8.,
34.78, Systematic Givers, 4.20; Honeoye Falls, 4, Golden Rule
Bd., 1; Lakeville, 10; Lima, q; Livonia, 12.25; Mendon, 15;
Moscow, 16; Mt. Morris, Christian Workers, 21; Nunda, 19;
Ogden, 47.15, EUinwood Bd., 9; Pittsford, 5: Rochester,
Brick, 250, C.E., 10; C"alvary, 39, Children of the King, 17,
Little Light Bearers, 3; Central, 133, Jenny Lush Soc, 36, for
Life Mem., 25, Do what you can Bd., 25, King's Cadets, s:
Emmanuel, 19.15; 1st, 30, Girls' Bd., 20; Memorial, 45; North,
75; St. Peters, 55, Emily Chumasero Bd., 10, S.S. , 25; Third,
37. so, S.S., 76.33, Jr. C.E., 15; Westm'r, 18, Y.L.S., 5,
Primary S.S., 3.50, Primary S.S. and Jr. C.E., 30; Mrs. Wm.
Ailing, 5, Mrs. Gerard Arink, 50; Scottsville, Bd , 5.75; Vic-
tor, 53.99; Webster, 3, C.E., 6.50, 1,665.40
St. Lawrence. — Adams, 17.97; Canton, 25; Carthage, 16.12;
DeKalb, 5; Gouvemeur, 40.30, Cheerful Givers, 25; Ham-
mond, 69; Morristown, 41.24, Silver Spray Bd., 16.70; Ogdens-
burg, Oswegatchie ist, 176, Y.L.S., 14, Little Helpers, 10;
Oswegatchie 2d, 14.79; Bow, 31; Sacketts Harbor, 7; Wad-
dington, 27; Scotch, 24; Watertown, 1st, 86, S.S., '8.58;
Stone St., 14.75, 679-45
Steuben.— Addison, 25, Y.L.S., 10; Almond, 9.46, Infant
CI., 4.04; Bath, 3.50; Campbell, 13, Little Gleaners, 5; Can-
isteo, 115, C.E., 25 ; Coming, 62.43, Y.L.S., 30, Busy Bees,
28.50; Cuba, 16: Hammondsport, so; Homellsville. 3 55. Bd.,
4; Howard, 8; Painted Post, 15, Bd., 2 50; Prattsburgh, 17;
Pulteney, 11 17, 428.15
Syracuse. — Amboy, 21, Y.P. Cir., 15; Baldwinsville, 27;
Camillus, 6; Canastota, 16.52, Y.P. Cir., 20, Loyal Bd., 15;
Chittenango, S.S , 10; Constantia, 5; East Syracuse, 40; Fay-
etteville, 26, Y.L. Cir , 15; Fulton, 30; Hannibal, 4 50; Jordan,
13, Helping Hand Bd., 5.15: Liverpool, 18; Marcellus, 13.34,
Golden Rule Bd., 5, Thorburn Bd., 20; Oswego, ist, 22; Pom-
P«yi 3°; Skaneateles, 57.65, Y.L. Cir., 7.50, Do what we can
Bd., 5; Syracuse, ist, 115.02, Fobes Bd., 50, Boys' Bd., 40,
Hudson Bd.,50, S.S., 36.91: ist ward, 70, King's Children, Jr.
Div., 5, C.E., 8; Fourth, 242.70, Senior Standard Bearers, 5,
Primary Standard Bearers, 29.1';, S.S., 50, C.E., 71.84; Me-
morial, 25; Park, 158.86, True Bd., 50; Westm'r, 10, 1,465.14
Transylvania, Ky.— Danville, 2d, 114, Little Gleaners, 25,
Lucas Bd., 5; East Bemstadt, Livingston and Pittsburgh, 6,
150.00
Utica Branch. — Augusta, a few ladies, 4, Primary S.S.,
3; Clayville, Mrs. Giles, 2.50: Clinton, 20, Y.L.S., 25: Ihon,
7: Knoxboro, 23.39; Martinsburg, 2: New Hartford, 7.85;
Oneida, 5; Oneida Castle, 17; Rome, 80, Jr. C.E., 5;Sauquoit,
6.50; Turin, 15, Children's mite boxes, 2.64; Utica. ist, 125;
Memorial, 10; Westm'r, 150, Brown Bd., 40, Fisher Pd., 75,
S.S., 25: Vernon, 13.50; Waterville, 5; Westemville, 10; Whites-
boro, 19.15, 698.53
Westchester.— Brewster, 7, Bd., 7.50; Bridgeport, Ct.,
40.08, Hope Bd., 10.80; Carmel, 16.50; Hartford, Ct., Union
Aid Soc, 14; Mahopac Falls, 8; Mt. Kisco, 8; Mt. Vernon,
25.30, Try to Help Bd., 4.50; New Haven, Ct., 11: New
Rochelle, 1st, 13.90, Waller Bd., 10: 2d, 18.75, Bd-. 10; Patter-
son, 24.50; Peekskill, ist, ico, 1st and 2d, 30.80, Cheerful
Workers, 42.65, Clinton Bd., 11; Pelham Manor, 14: Port
Chester, C.E., 15.20; Rye, 225.34, Missionary Endeavor, 15,
Soldiers of the Cross, 30.40; South Salem, Ladies Benev. Ass'n,
29.55: Stamford, Ct., King's Daughters, 30, C.E., 25, Jr. C.E.,
20; Thompsonville, Ct., 18- White Plains, 10; Yonkers, ist,
50, C.E , 12; Westm'r, 25; Yorktown, Y L.S., 2, 935-77
Miscellaneous. — A friend, 5 ; Albuquerque, N. Mex., ist,
20; Bloomfield, N. J., through Mrs. Condict, 5: Chili Station,
N. Y., Miss L. B. Johnson, 2 ; Contribution boxes at 53 Fifth
Ave., 28.06; Crescent City, Fla., 1st, 10: Florence, Italy, a
fri-nd, 25 : Geneseo, N. Y., a family Bd., 4.50: Interest on
Meairal Fund, 31.27; Lake Helen, Fla., 10 ; Mora, N. Mex.,
1.40; N. Y. City, Mrs. Benj. Labaree, 5 ; Santa Fe, N. Mex.,
8.50; Union, N. Y., Miss Susan Morse, 5, 160.73
Total, $24,789.77
Total since April 1st, ^66,454.15
Mrs. C. p. Hartt, Treas.,
53 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Mrs. J. A. Welch, Asst. Treas.,
34 West Seventeenth street. New York City.
Receipts of the Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions to March 26, 1894.
Benicia — Blue Lake, S.C.E , 1.25; Healdsburgh, 24;
Mendocino, 10; San Rafael, 32.25, per Mrs. Fish, 5, S.C.E. ,
5.10; Santa Rosa, 43, per Miss Chase, 20, per Mrs. Stuart,
20, Mary Lyon Soc, 37.50, S C.E., 495; St. Helena, 10,
Crown Winners, 7.50; Vallejo, 21.50, S.C.E , 3, 245.05
Los Angeles. — Alhambra, 9.17 ; Anaheim, 16.50; Azusa,
33, Buds of Promise, 5, S.C.E., 8 ; Carpenteria, 2 ; Colton,
15.35, Loan and Trust Co., 10.20, S.S. Bd., 8.02, S.C.E,
19.44; Coronado, 26.50, per Mrs. Reed, 50, S.S. Bd., 12;
Elsinore, 15, Do-What-You-Can Bd., 3 30, S.C.E., 6.25;
Glendale, 6, per Mrs, Byram, 5, Loyal Hearts and Willing
Hands, i ; Los Angeles, 1st, 223.95, Archie Hodge Bd., 29,
Round Table of the King, 43.55 ; 2nd, Ch., 45, Busy Bees,
4.44, King's Messengers, 22 ; 3rd Ch., 15* Golden Rule Soc,
2.50, S.C.E., 5, Jr. C.E., 2.50; Bethany, 63.50, S S. Bd., 5,
S.C.E , 15, Jr. C.E., 3; Boyle Heights, 30, S.C E., 14, Jr.
C.E., 14, Morrison Bd. (Chinese), 1280: Grandview, 30.40,
S.S. Bd , 2.90, S.C E., 4 20 ; Immanuel, 323.15, per Mrs.
Minor, 100, Mae Belle Bd., 11.75, Mary T. Minor i!d,,9.70,
Y L.S., 74.11, S.C.E., 28, Estrellas de la Manana (Spanish),
4 75 ; Montecito, 2 : National City, 17.40 ; Nordhoff, 5 ;
Orange, 15 50 ; Golden Links, 3.50, S.C.E., 5 ; Palms, 30.50 ;
Pasadena, ist, 164.44; Calvary, 7, Little Drops of Water, 7;
Pomona, 20.60, S.S. Bd., 10; Redlands, 101.15, Orange Blos-
soms, 15, SC.E., 15; Riverside, Arlington, 59.50, S.S. Bd.,
14.20, S C E., 3.35, Jr. C E., 3 60 ; Calvary, 10, S.C E., 10;
San Bernardino, 7 ; San Diego, 24, S.C.E., 10; San Pedro, 5 ;
Santa Ana, 35 : Santa Barbara, 102 50, per Mrs. Douglass, 600,
Y.L.S., 5, 8 C.E., 33.60, Adams Bd. (Chinese), 10 05 ; Santa
Monica, 9, Bd, 14.27 ; Tustin, 8, Busy Bees, 1.50 ; Ventura, 1.75 ;
Westmr., 10, Miscellaneous, a Friend, 13.80, 2,801.14
Oakland. — Alameda, 35, S.C E., 10; Berkeley, 1st, 53,
Busy Bees, 33 7^, S.S., 20; North Temescal, S.C. E., 7.95, Jr.
C.E., 3.30; Oakland, ist, 400,25, per Mrs Adams, 9, per Mrs.
Hutchinson, 48, Sunbeams, 13.05, Sublette Circle K. D., 30'
S.S., 50, S.C.E., 100, Jr. C.E., 7.35; 2nd Ch., 10 ; Brooklyn,
116.90 : Centennial, 2.25, S.C.E., 10, Jr. C.E. (Welsh), 3.20 ;
Valona, 4 ; Miscellaneous, Oakland, ist Ch., 45 ; Pres'l Coll.,
4-57. 1,016-57
Sacramento. — Chico, 2 ; Colusa, 3.90 ; Red Bluff, 6.40 ;
Roseville, 3 ; Sacramento, 14th St., 16, S.C.E., 4 ; Westm'r,
52, 87.30
San Francisco. — San Francisco, ist, 326.50, I.H.N., 87.60,
Ma Salaami, 2.80, Miss Latham's CI., 18, Miss RejTiold's CI.,
1.05, S.S., 52, S.C.E., s ; Calvary, 67.75, S.C.E., 10, Jr.C.E., 5,
Tong Oke Soc (Chinese), 16: Franklin St., 5.20, Stepping
Stones, 2.45, S.S., 7.80, S.C.E., 11. so ; Howard, 5.65, S.C.E.,
20; Lebanon, 7.10, B.B. 5th Co., 2, S.S., 2.80; Memorial, 12.16;
Hope M. Soc, 5, Mizpah, B.B. 20th Co., 55 cts.. Olivet, 3.50,
St., John's, 2.50; Trinity, 41.11, Fidelia Soc, 41, Lend-a-Hand,
14, Our Little Comer, 3, S.S., 12, S.r.E.. 1.50 ; Westm'r, 30. 22,
Faithful Workers, 10.7s, Mattie Nash Bd., 21, Infant Ci., 4,
Pastor's Bible CI., 25, S.S., 40.80, 933-29
San Jose. — Cayucos, 7: Highland, S.C.E., i; Los Gatos,
18.55, Y.L. 8., 3.50; San Jose, 1st, 87.25, Alex. Duff Soc,
42.25; 2nd Ch., 10.50; San Luis Obispo, 5 ; Santa Clara, 35.70,
King's Daughters, 5, 8. 8., 20.50; Santa Cruz, 3, Margaret
Culbertson Soc. 2 ; Watsonville. 17.70, 258.95
Stockton. — Fresno, 10; Hickman, K.D., 2.50; Madera,
3; Merced, 6.75: Stockton, 7.20 ; Woodbridge, 5, 34-45
Miscellaneous.— H. C. Coleman, Norristown, Pa., 100;
Jr. C.E., Peoria, 111., 5 ; Board reed, at " Home," 25 ; Contri-
bution Box at Home," 6.90, 136.90
Total for month, #5.513-65
Total for year ending March 26, 1894, 9,910.18
Mrs. E. G. Denniston, Treas.,
Mar. 29,1894. 920 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Calif.
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